There Goes the Neighborhood Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these riveting first-person narratives and the meticulous research which accompanies them reveal honest yet disturbing realities—ones that remind us why the elusive American dream of integrated neighborhoods remains a priority of race relations in our time.
Social ScienceSociologyUrbanMinority StudiesSocial Classes & Economic Disparity
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
There Goes the Neighborhood Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
by William Julius Wilson, Richard P. Taub
From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these riveting first-person narratives and the meticulous research which accompanies them reveal honest yet disturbing realities—ones that remind us why the elusive American dream of integrated neighborhoods remains a priority of race relations in our time.
Social ScienceSociologyUrbanMinority StudiesSocial Classes & Economic Disparity
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
