LEADER 03116nam 22004575 450 001 9910151585403321 005 20230810001328.0 010 $a1-4798-7123-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479871230 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951836 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4500686 035 $a(OCoLC)963794940 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53924 035 $a(DE-B1597)547184 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479871230 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951836 100 $a20200608h20172017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRace and the Politics of Deception $eThe Making of an American City /$fChristopher Mele 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (132 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4798-6609-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $t1. Race Strategies and the Politics of Urban Development -- $t2. The Racial Divide in the Making of Chester -- $t3. How to Make a Ghetto -- $t4. The Birmingham of the North -- $t5. Five Square Miles of Hell -- $t6. Welcome to the ?Post- Racial? Black City -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aWhat is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales?In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America?s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space. Mele focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania?a small city comprised of primarily low-income, black residents, roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia. Like many cities throughout the United States, Chester is experiencing post-industrial decline. A development plan touted as a way to ?save? the city, proposes to turn one section into a desirable waterfront destination, while leaving the rest of the struggling residents in fractured communities. Dividing the city into spaces of tourism and consumption versus the everyday spaces of low-income residents, Mele argues, segregates the community by creating a racialized divide. While these development plans are described as socially inclusive and economically revitalizing, Mele asserts that political leaders and real estate developers intentionally exclude certain types of people?most often, low-income people of color.Race and the Politics of Deception provides a revealing look at how our ever-changing landscape is being strategically divided along lines of class and race. 606 $aWar and society$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aWar and society$xHistory. 676 $a355.00973 700 $aMele$b Christopher, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01112037 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151585403321 996 $aRace and the Politics of Deception$93417508 997 $aUNINA