Our Town :Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia

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Our Town

Our Town :Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia

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An account of the legal battle to open up New Jersey's suburbs to the poor, looking at the views of lawyers on both sides of the controversy. It is a case study of judicial activism and its consequences and an analysis of suburban attitudes regarding race, class and property.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780813524566
ISBN10 0813524563
Number Of Pages 280
Item Weight 454 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Publisher / Reseller Rutgers University Press
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

DAVID L. KIRP, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Just Schools: Race and Schooling in America, Gender Justice, and Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities (Rutgers University Press), and a regular contributor to Harper's, The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times.

JOHN P. DWYER , John H. Boalt professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, is a nationally recognized authority on environmental law and housing policy and law.

LARRY A. ROSENTHAL is an attorney and has served as a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and assistant editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

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