racism

Reviews

The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream

Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 January 2023

The suburbs of the United States, once the epicenter of racial segregation, are now home to more African Americans...

Essays

Before Redlining and Beyond

Alex B. Hill - 2 November 2021

There is a larger story of spatial racism in cities before and beyond redlining. Spatial racism was not limited to a...

Reviews

Institutional Readings on Zoning

Jamaal Green - 20 November 2020

A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...

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 politicians...

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...

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 over...

Debates

When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?

Cathy Lisa Schneider - 14 November 2017

In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and...

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 countries...

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 it...

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 distinction...

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

Ethnic discrimination in social housing

François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 March 2014

Valérie Sala Pala has investigated the extent to which ethnic criteria come into play in the allocation of social...

Reviews

The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?

Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 December 2013

Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and...

Essays

Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?

Élise Palomares & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 October 2013

Why has the analysis of interethnic relations been so long ignored by French urban sociology? For Élise Palomares,...

Debates

Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?

Éric Fassin & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 9 March 2011

Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...

The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream

Before Redlining and Beyond

Institutional Readings on Zoning

Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany

Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Organizing Against Projet Gentrification: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal

When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?

Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France

Urban Decline Is Not Natural

Closed Quarters

When Cities Fail, Babies Die

Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space

Ethnic discrimination in social housing

The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?

Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?

Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?

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