Full Description
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography, urban studies, and communication to explore how urban spaces, like Detroit and Harlem, are rhetorically structured through neoliberal discourses that mask the racialized nature of housing and health in American cities. The analysis focuses on city planning documents, web sites, media accounts, and draws on insights from personal interviews in order to pull together a story of city growth and its consequences, while keeping an eye on the ways city residents continue to confront and resist control over their communities through counter-narratives that challenge geographies of injustice. Recommended for scholars of communication studies, journalism, sociology, geography, and political science.
Contents
Chapter 1: Theoretical Considerations
Part I: Race and Displacement in Detroit
Chapter 2: Narratives of Growth and Collective Resistance
Chapter 3: Rationality vs. Demystification
Part II: Race and Health in Harlem
Chapter 4: Mapping Race
Chapter 5: Citizen Science: How We Come To Know What We Know
Chapter 6: Neoliberalism, Urban spaces, and Race
