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Title: Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia by David L. Kirp, John P. Dwyer, Larry A. Rosenthal ISBN: 0-8135-2253-6 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: John Grisham fans should read this book instead!
Comment: "Our Town" is a poignant and powerful legal thriller. This is perhaps a surprising way to characterize a work by UCal, Berkeley policy wonks, published by one of the lesser known university presses, but this book deserves the widest possible readership. It tells the epic, heroic, heart-rending, and true story of the attempt to bring fair housing policy to New Jersey, the most suburban state in the country, and by extension, the most representative of American housing trends. It tells the story of an attempt by the African-American community of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey - a community whose origins date back to the colonial period - to create affordable housing in what was then, in 1968, a largely rural, white township of southern New Jersey. In response to thier request for the necesary zoning approval, the then mayor of Mt. Laurel (and wealthy farmer and late state senator) William Haines told the black community of Mt. LAurel: "if you people cannot afford to live in our town, then you will have to move." (this is a quotation from memory). The legals battles that followed over the next 25 years were epochal for New Jersey and for the country. This story is an epic (not unlike Jonathan Harr's book about the toxic wazste dumps in Massachusetts, A Civil Action) with genuine heroes such as Ethel Lawrence , the black New Jersey woman who led the fight, and even NJ supreme court justices who saw through the racism of Mt Laurel officials and the subtler but equally insidious intransigence of NJ governor Thomas Kean, who, for my money, is the worst villain of the lot. (I am, by the way, a New Jerseyan myself).Everyone who care about racial justice in America should find this book worthwhile. For an essentialy academic study, it is astonishingly moving. I read it in hardcover, when it first came out, mainly because I was attracted by its stylish cover, but it is the kind of book I actively recommend to my friends and family.
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Title: Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson ISBN: 0195049837 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis ISBN: 0679738061 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Another Planet : A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School by Elinor Burkett ISBN: 0060505850 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates ISBN: 0375708448 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue ISBN: 0691058881 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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