Lexington Books
Pages: 202
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9381-5 • Hardback • August 2016 • $89.00 • (£68.00)
978-0-7391-9383-9 • Paperback • May 2018 • $42.99 • (£33.00)
978-0-7391-9382-2 • eBook • August 2016 • $40.50 • (£31.00)
Mary E. Triece is professor of communication studies at the University of Akron.
Chapter 1: Theoretical Considerations
Part I: Race and Displacement in Detroit
Chapter 2: Narratives of Growth and Collective Resistance
Chapter 3: Rationality vs. Demystification
Part II: Race and Health in Harlem
Chapter 4: Mapping Race
Chapter 5: Citizen Science: How We Come To Know What We Know
Chapter 6: Neoliberalism, Urban spaces, and Race
A robust, rigorous, and critical critique of the often unexamined impact of the ‘colorblind neoliberal paradigm’ in U.S. urban renewal programs. Useful for understanding urban space, race, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
— Gene Burd, Founding Benefactor, Urban Communication Foundation
In Urban Renewal and Resistance, Mary E. Triece foregrounds and carefully analyzes the voices, rhetorics, and experiences of those marginalized by America’s racially oppressive and exclusionary urban landscapes. She shows how African American urban residents suffering through gentrification-driven displacement in post-bankruptcy Detroit and enduring toxic exposure in contemporary Harlem are organizing, speaking out, and fighting back. As such, this book makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the discursive dimension of the struggles surrounding the racial and class inequalities that define the neoliberal city.
— Steve Macek, North Central College
• Winner, NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award (2017)