Jan Doering

Us Versus Them

Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crime and gentrification are among the most hotly-contested urban issues in American cities. In Us versus Them, Jan Doering examines both, showing how residents, activists, and politicians clashed over these issues and especially over how race factored into both. The book draws on extensive fieldwork to produce a comprehensive and vivid portrait of community conflict in two racially-diverse Chicago neighborhoods. In doing so, it provides new insights into how residents use the criminal justice system to fight crime but advance gentrification in the process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780190066581
• ISBN-10: 019006658X
• Artikelnr.: 58343437

Autorenporträt

Jan Doering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Chapter 1: The Battle over Race, Crime, and Gentrification
* Chapter 2: A Brief History of Living Together
* Chapter 3: Racial Displacement in Action? Safety Activism and Its
Racial Entanglements
* Chapter 4: "You've got reason to be afraid": Crime and Race in
Electoral Campaigning
* Chapter 5: Resisting Gentrification and Criminalization
* Chapter 6: "White Vigilantes?" Two Case Studies of Positive Loitering
* Chapter 7: Racial Identities and Political Standpoints: Expected and
Unexpected Alignments
* Chapter 8: Crime and Gentrification Beyond Black and White
* Chapter 9: Conclusion
* Appendix: About the Fieldwork
* Notes
* References
* Index