Greetings Colleagues,
Below you'll find a preview of City & Community issue 7:4, which
will be released in December 2008. As we do in the last issue of
each volume, this issue thanks each of you who have served as peer
reviewers in the past 12 months. To all of you, thank you.
In this issue, we are pleased to offer two original articles, as
well as a symposium organized by Bruce Haynes and Ray Hitchison that
was inspired by the recent exchanges on the UCSS listserv concerning
the concept of the 'ghetto.' And somehow we were able to squeeze in
three book reviews also. We hope you enjoy it.
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Best
Zachary Neal
Zachary Neal, PhD Candidate
Managing Editor, City & Community
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Department of Sociology (M/C 312)
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607
http://www2.uic.edu/~zneal2
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CITY & COMMUNITY 7:4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
*** Anthony Orum – Editorial Introduction ***
*** Reviewer Acknowledgement ***
ARTICLES
*** Michele Wakin – Using Vehicles to Challenge Anti-Sleeping
Ordinances
ABSTRACT: Homeless people who sleep on city streets are subject to
regulation practices that target their appearance, status, and
behavior. Vehicle living affords a private sleeping area yet
occupants are still frequently cited for sleeping in public. The
right to sleep has recently become controversial, as cities that do
not provide adequate shelter cannot legally outlaw public sleeping.
This paper uses interviews, surveys, and municipal court trial data
to present an ethnographic case study of the vehicle community in
Santa Barbara, CA. Like many California coastal cities, the visible
presence of homeless people is troubling to citizens, city
officials, and tourists who seek unfettered access to beaches and
shopping areas. Homeless people who sleep in these areas see their
vehicles as essential for personal survival, as a way of escaping
negative public attention, and as a way of arguing for social
legitimacy.
*** Leslie Martin – Boredom, Drugs, and Schools: Protecting Children
in Gentrifying Communities
ABSTRACT: In this paper I examine rhetoric about threats to children
from three gentrifying neighborhoods in Atlanta, GA to see how it
expresses distinctions between two different types of residents:
appropriate or legitimate neighbors, and others. I focus on the
subtle, everyday aspects of boundary-work to highlight how
residents’ responses to the social changes in gentrifying
neighborhoods reflect uncertainty about belonging and about the
future. Residents use coded language to express their fears and to
emphasize distinctions between new and long-time residents. They do
not directly address race or class differences between neighbors,
but rather draw on an available cultural strategy and stress the
threats that living in a changing neighborhood pose to children
(Best 1990). I find that residents focus on threats to children as a
socially acceptable and highly compelling way to object to the
different class, and sometimes race, background of their neighbors.
I draw from the boundary literature to highlight how distinctions
can be created and maintained in diverse and changing neighborhoods,
especially gentrifying neighborhoods.
GHETTO SYMPOSIUM
*** Bruce Haynes and Ray Hutchison – The Ghetto: Origins, History,
Discourse
*** Andrew A. Beveridge – A Century of Harlem in New York City: Some
Notes on Migration, Consolidation, Segregation and Recent
Developments
*** Talja Blockland – From the Outside Looking In: A ‘European’
Perspective on the Ghetto
*** Anmol Chaddha and William Julius Wilson – Reconsidering the
‘Ghetto’
*** Herbert J. Gans – Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto:
Disconnecting Process and Place
*** Circe Monteiro – Enclaves, Condominiums, and Favelas: Where are
the Ghettos in Brazil?
*** Mario Luis Small – Four Reasons to Abandon the Idea of ‘The Ghetto’
*** Diego Vigil – Barrio Geneology
BOOK REVIEWS
*** Shenjing He – Urban China in Transition, by John Logan
*** Susan Clarke – Power in the City: Clarence Stone and the
Politics of Inequality, by Marion Orr and Valerie C. Johnson
*** Chris Winship – God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics
of Church-State Collaboration in Black America, by Michael Leo Owen
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