The ghetto : contemporary global issues and controversies / / edited by Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes

• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, c2012; Boulder, Colo. : , : Westview Press, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (671 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.3366
• Soggetto topico: Inner cities; Sociology, Urban
• Altri autori: HaynesBruce D. <1960-> HutchisonRay
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto; 2. De-spatialization and Dilution of the Ghetto: Current Trends in the United States; 3. Toward Knowing the Iconic Ghetto; 4. "You Just Don't Go Down There": Learning to Avoid the Ghetto in San Francisco; 5. In Terms of Harlem; 6. The Spike Lee Effect: Reimagining the Ghetto for Cultural Consumption; 7. Places of Stigma: Ghettos, Barrios, and Banlieues; 8. On the Absence of Ghettos in Latin American Cities ; 9. Divided Cities: Rethinking the Ghetto in Light of the Brazilian Favela10. Demonstrations at Work: Some Notes from Urban Africa; 11. From Refuge the Ghetto Is Born: Contemporary Figures of Heterotopias; 12. Where Is the Chicago Ghetto?; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: A cutting-edge collection of original essays from leading scholars examining the contemporary state of the ghetto in all its forms
• Titolo autorizzato: The ghetto
• ISBN: 0-429-97614-3; 0-429-96506-0; 0-429-49651-6; 1-283-28568-1; 9786613285683; 0-8133-4504-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808642303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II