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From the Field
The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space
Brad Stephens & Chris Stephenson & Max O. Stephenson Jr.
- 16 January 2024
How does the Black Radical imagination manifest in “forgotten places” amid shifting populations? Brad Stephens, Chris...
Essays
Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany
Janina L. Selzer
- 15 September 2020
A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While...
Essays
The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta’s Cityhood Movement
Coleman Allums & Scott Markley
- 10 March 2020
In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They...
From the Field
Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia
Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 February 2020
High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of...
Reviews
Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Ryan M. Good
- 17 December 2019
Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...
Reviews
Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s
Race for Profit
Hilary Botein
- 10 December 2019
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit examines the urban homeownership programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and...
Interviews
Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran
Alex Schafran & Darian Razdar
- 14 May 2019
Darian Razdar interviews Alex Schafran about his new book Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the...
Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
From the Field
Race and Progressive Politics in Chicago
John J. Betancur & Leonor Vanik
- 9 January 2019
The progressive movement in Chicago may not be as broad-minded as depicted in the academic literature. Racial...
Essays
Organizing Against
Projet Gentrification
: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal
Pierce Nettling
- 27 November 2018
Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...
From the Field
Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York
Tanesha A. Thomas
- 23 October 2018
In Albany’s South End, a predominantly low-income African-American neighborhood, tanks storing environmentally...
Reviews
Miscounting Americans Correctly: Post-Truth as a Guide to Race and the US Census
Gregory Smithsimon
- 12 June 2018
Paul Schor’s book Counting Americans demonstrates that, in the hands of the US Census Bureau, the concept of race...
Essays
Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census
Frank Donnelly
- 27 February 2018
As preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census...
From the Field
“People of Color Are Not Props”: Black Branding and Community Resistance in Gentrifying Brooklyn
Maura McGee
- 6 February 2018
When a new white-owned upscale bar-restaurant in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights advertised...
From the Field
Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space
Frank Muraca
- 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
From the Field
The Americanization of French social movements? Community organizing and its discontents in the
banlieues
Julien Talpin
- 29 June 2017
In this second of two articles, sociologist Julien Talpin discusses the importation to France of American...
From the Field
What’s the matter with the
banlieues
? Exploring the importation of the American community organizing tradition by French social movements
Julien Talpin
- 22 June 2017
With the eclipse of the once-powerful Communist and Socialist Parties in France, and these parties’ traditional...
From the Field
Rendering a Redeveloped France
Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne
- 7 June 2017
As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new...
From the Field
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...
Essays
Urban Decline Is Not Natural
Jason Hackworth
- 11 April 2017
Is urban decline inevitable for cities affected by deindustrialization? While many scholars espouse the idea that...
Reviews
Closed Quarters
William Helmreich
- 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
Essays
Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation
Akira Drake Rodriguez
- 1 December 2016
What are the political implications of the redistribution of the Black population in the US? Akira Drake Rodriguez...
From the Field
The French Republic and the Paris Spring
Gregory Smithsimon
- 6 September 2016
Has the French Spring arrived yet? Gregory Smithsimon documents La Nuit Debout, a self-named social movement that...
Reviews
On Being Black and Poor in a Small City
Peter Moskos
- 24 May 2016
No Way Out, Waverly Duck’s recent examination of how African Americans in an impoverished small city construct a...
From the Field
“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”
C. Ray Borck
- 3 May 2016
Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...
Debates
Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space
Michelle Billies
- 1 March 2016
The absence of charges brought in the case of a police murder of a Black lesbian in front of the homeless shelter...
Essays
When Cities Fail, Babies Die
Monica J. Casper
- 2 February 2016
Detroit, Michigan is often identified as the worst city in the United States, with excessive poverty, racism, and...
Debates
Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space
Naomi Adiv
- 7 July 2015
On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a...
Reviews
All the Gayborhoods are White
Marcus Anthony Hunter
- 19 May 2015
The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...
From the Field
Social Norms and Resistance on the City Bus
Sofya Aptekar
- 5 May 2015
While subways are hailed as the quintessential New York experience, with their own museum, T-shirts, and lore, the...
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Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets
Ivana Mellers
- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...
Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...
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Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
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In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...
Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...
Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...
Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...
The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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