Us versus Them

Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods

Jan Doering (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-006658-1 (ISBN)

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Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods. How do residents, activists, and politicians navigate the thorny politics of race as they fight crime or resist gentrification? And do conflicts over competing visions of neighborhood change necessarily divide activists into racially homogeneous camps, or can they produce more complex alliances and divisions? In Us versus Them, Jan Doering answers these questions through an in-depth study of two Chicago neighborhoods. Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork, Doering examines how activists and community leaders clashed and collaborated as they launched new initiatives, built coalitions, appeased critics, and discredited opponents. At the heart of these political maneuvers, he uncovers a ceaseless battle over racial meanings that unfolded as residents strove to make local initiatives and urban change appear racially benign or malignant. A thoughtful and clear-eyed contribution to the field, Us versus Them reveals the deep impact that competing racial meanings have on the fabric of community and the direction of neighborhood change.

Jan Doering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University.

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Battle over Race, Crime, and Gentrification
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Living Together
Chapter 3: Racial Displacement in Action? Safety Activism and Its Racial Entanglements
Chapter 4: "You've got reason to be afraid": Crime and Race in Electoral Campaigning
Chapter 5: Resisting Gentrification and Criminalization
Chapter 6: "White Vigilantes?" Two Case Studies of Positive Loitering
Chapter 7: Racial Identities and Political Standpoints: Expected and Unexpected Alignments
Chapter 8: Crime and Gentrification Beyond Black and White
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Appendix: About the Fieldwork
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	5 b&w line drawings; 8 b&w halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-006658-X / 019006658X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-006658-1 / 9780190066581
Zustand	Neuware