Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs: History, Politics, and Prospects

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Contents 1 Introduction 1 Christopher Niedt PART I Race, Class, and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century 2 Twenty-First-Century Suburban Demography: Increasing Diversity Yet Lingering Exclusion 13 Nancy A. Denton and Joseph R. Gibbons 3 The Suburban Geography of Moral Panic: Low-Income Housing and the Revanchist Fringe 31 L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Casey Gallagher 4 Protest on the Astroturf at Downtown Silver Spring: July 4, 2007 54 June Williamson PART II Revealing Activist Histories 5 “In the Spirit of Equality”: Conflict, Dissonance, and the Potential for Transformative Educational Change 73 Anne Galletta 6 Not Quite Suburban: Progressive Activism in Postwar Chicago 91 Robert Gioielli 7 Fringe Politics: Suburban Expansion and the Mexican American Struggle for Alviso, California 105 Aaron Cavin vi Contents PART III Sustaining Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb 8 Maywood, Not Mayberry: Latinos and Suburbia in Los Angeles County 129 Manuel Pastor 9 Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental Politics in a Changing Richmond 155 Alex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein 10 Public Archaeology and Sense of Place in Alexandria, Virginia: An Exploration of the Changing Significance of Fort Ward Park 172 Douglas R. Appler 11 First Suburbs and Nonprofit Housing: How Do Urban CDCs Develop Affordable Housing in Suburban Communities? 185 JoAnna Mitchell-Brown 12 The Future of Fair Housing in a Diverse Suburbia 213 john a. powell and Jason Reece References 229 Contributors 255 Index 259 Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs ...