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Mary Pattillo - Black on the Block: The Politics of Race & Class in the City
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Time: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:00 p.m.
Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th St
Mary Pattillo joins us in a discussion of her latest book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race & Class in the City. Pattillo is Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class. In Black on the Block, Pattillo examines the revival of the North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood as it transformed through the work of activists and members of the community from a gang- and drug-ridden area into a thriving and stable "black" neighborhood. Through her analysis of this shift, Pattillo is able to expose the tensions and divisions within the community as social and economic classes collide in the effort to strengthen and stabilize the community. Despite these divides, Pattillo's research argues that when choosing between engagement or withdrawal, the members of this community choose to thoroughly and overwhelmingly become involved.
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Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class(Trade Paperback)
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Pattillo-McCoy, Mary
Format: Trade Paperback
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Published: University of Chicago Press, 2000
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
"Black Picket Fences" is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.
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Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Pattillo, Mary
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
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$29.00
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2007
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In "Black on the Block," Mary Pattillo--a "Newsweek "Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.
There was a time when North Kenwood-Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. "Black on the Block" tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously "black" neighborhood that continues to flourish today. But theirs is not a tale of easy consensus and political unity, and here Pattillo teases out the divergent class interests that have come to define black communities like North Kenwood-Oakland. She explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers as they clash over the social implications of gentrification. Along the way, Pattillo highlights the conflicted but crucial role that middle-class blacks play in transforming such districts as they negotiate between established centers of white economic and political power and the needs of their less fortunate black neighbors. "A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one."--"Chicago"" Reader"
"To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows . . . turn to Mary Pattillo's" Black on the Block.""--"Boston"" Globe"
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Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration(Trade Paperback)
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Pattillo, Mary,
Weiman, David,
Western, Bruce
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$19.95
Published: Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2006
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Examines the connections between incarceration and family formation, labor markets, political participation, and community well-being.
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