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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David Dante TrouttPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780814760550ISBN 10: 0814760554 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 17 January 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Mutuality: The Thief, the Preacher, and the Late-Night Lawyer 2 All This I Made Myself: Assuming That Middle-Class Lives Are Self-Sufficient 3 Keep Your Distance: Assuming That Middle-Class Status Requires Distance from the Poor 4 The Promise Half Empty: Assuming That Segregation Is a Thing of the Past 5 We Renamed the Problem and It Disappeared: Assuming That Racism No Longer Limits Minority Chances 6 Islands without Paradise: Assuming That Poverty Results from Weak Values and Poor Decisions 7 Raceless Wonders: Assuming That Racial Labels No Longer Matter 8 The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America AcknowledgmentsNotes Selected Bibliography Index About the AuthorReviewsThrough clear and evocative prose, The Price of Paradise makes the movement for regional equity accessible to the broader public and all those hurt by the disadvantages of regional inequality.It is a clear call for a better and more unified America. -Myron Orfield,author of American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality David Troutt's The Price of Paradise is a careful analysis and also a personal, passionate critique of the widely held assumptions that have helped generate metropolitan inequity in the United States.The critique and analysis are written in an engaging and readable style, and they are powerful and persuasive. This is a book everyone should read, because the lives of all Americans are structured by the inequities Troutt describes and seeks to overcome. -Gerald Frug,author of City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation A forcefully presented eye-opener sure to provoke controversy as well as interest. -Kirkus Troutt definitively demonstrates why no community is an island, and why caring about those people in the neighborhoods on the other side of the tracks can be the best move you could make to secure your own economic future.Troutt's chapter on remaking communities through metropolitan equity should be required reading for policymakers, activists and urban economists alike. -Daria Roithmayr,author of Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage A rare and compelling account of how local governance practices produce racial inequality at every level of American life-and of what we can do about it. Ambitious but pragmatic, the Price of Paradise offers fresh and concrete ideas for solving the most entrenched social problem in American history. -Devon Carbado,co-author of Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America A forcefully presented eye-opener sure to provoke controversy as well as interest. -Kirkus, A forcefully presented eye-opener sure to provoke controversy as well as interest. - Kirkus , Author InformationDavid Dante Troutt is Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at the Rutgers University-Newark Law School. He also serves as Director of the Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Law School. Troutt is a columnist, novelist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, most recently After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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