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  • Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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  • edited by Teresa A. Booker
  • 2013
  • Published by: The University of Akron Press
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This interdisciplinary anthology contains a collection of materials, including personal accounts, analyses of historical and/or current events, and legal rulings told through the lens of various racial or ethnic groups living in the United States. Included are discussions of housing and neighborhoods, recreation and work, crime, education, and politics.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half title, Title page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-xiv
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  1. Part 1: Case Studies
  1. Chapter 1. The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories about Race and Racism in the United States
  2. Babacar M’Baye
  3. pp. 3-15
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  1. Chapter 2. A Mexicana on Wheels: One Woman’s Account of Moving About in Los Angeles
  2. Marisabel Almer
  3. pp. 16-35
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  1. Chapter 3. Getting a Ride with Ronny, Tom, and David: Coming of Age Onboard the Rapid Transit District Buses in Los Angeles in the 1980s
  2. Marisabel Almer
  3. pp. 36-50
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  1. Chapter 4. The Hasidim of North Brooklyn
  2. Sam Beck
  3. pp. 51-76
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  1. Chapter 5. A White Man in the Colored Bronx
  2. Ivan Greenberg
  3. pp. 77-90
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  1. Part 2: Representing and Imagining Race: Language, Music, and Community
  1. Chapter 6. Individual Representations of Bicultural Nature Exiled in Urban Communities
  2. Graciela Pérez Boruszko
  3. pp. 93-104
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  1. Chapter 7. Language Ideologies and Racial Formation in Latino Orlando
  2. Simone Pierre Delerme
  3. pp. 105-120
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  1. Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Cities: Go-Go and Punk Music as Representation of Race and Washington, DC
  2. Shayna Maskell
  3. pp. 121-137
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  1. Chapter 9. Blues without Black People: Notes on New Orleans, Ethnic Cleansing, and the White Imagination
  2. Joshua Price
  3. pp. 138-150
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  1. Part 3: Physical and Mental Well-Being
  1. Chapter 10. Shopping Daze: Urban Supermarkets and Perinatal Health
  2. Adwoa K. Boahene, Donald A. Cibula
  3. pp. 153-166
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  1. Chapter 11. You Can’t Survive If You Don’t Eat Meat: Food in the Asian Indian Diaspora
  2. M. Gail Hickey
  3. pp. 167-196
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  1. Chapter 12. Community-Based Role Models: Ongoing Stories of Minority Male Mentoring
  2. Stephen T. Powers
  3. pp. 197-210
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  1. Part 4: Housing and Space
  1. Chapter 13. Puerto Rican Community Gardens and Casitas of New York City
  2. Jean Martin Caldieron, Ramon Sacristan, Mate Thitisawat
  3. pp. 213-228
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  1. Chapter 14. Healthcare Policy and Housing“ Choice” Among Low-Income HIV Positive African American Women in Urban North Carolina
  2. Alyson J. O’Daniel
  3. pp. 229-242
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  1. Chapter 15. Now It’s More Diverse, But It’s Still Ghetto: Youth Discourses on Racial Diversity, Poverty, and the Dislocating “Ghetto”
  2. Kenzo K. Sung
  3. pp. 243-264
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  1. Chapter 16. You Can’t Go Home . . . Again: Confinement, Displacement, and the Legacy of Public Housing in the Lives of Low-Income Black Americans
  2. John N. Robinson III
  3. pp. 265-276
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  1. Part 5: Politics and Activism
  1. Chapter 17. “Sangam Means Sacred Confluence”: Gender, Geography, and Generation in a US Asian Indian Association
  2. M. Gail Hickey
  3. pp. 279-307
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  1. Chapter 18. Race and Resistance: The Whitening of Hyde Park, Illinois,1880–1920
  2. Kenya Davis-Hayes
  3. pp. 308-317
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  1. Chapter 19. The Political Context for Understanding the Existence of the TRIO Program Upward Bound
  2. Teresa A. Booker
  3. pp. 318-336
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  1. Part 6: Law and Justice
  1. Chapter 20. All the Tigers in the World: Race and Rehabilitation in an American Prison
  2. Robert L. Clark, Ying Yang
  3. pp. 339-352
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  1. Chapter 21. “Officially Murdered!”: Police Brutality, Internal Colonialism, and Black Liberation in 1930s Detroit
  2. Kenneth Jolly
  3. pp. 353-378
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 379-388
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