Book List

This area of the Cyberhood includes books that may be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in communities of color and poor central city neighborhoods.

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Featured Books

Afary, Kamran. 2009. Performance and Activism: Grassroots Discourse After the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992. New York, NY: Lexington Books.

Birch, Eugenie L. and Susan M. Wachter, eds. 2008. Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Birch, Eugenie L. 2009. The Urban and Regional Planning Reader. New York: Routledge.

Bowen, Glenn. 2008. Tackling Poverty with Social Funds: The Jamaican Experience. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.

Davies, Jonathan S. and David L. Imbroscio. 2008. Theories of Urban Politics, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Eikenberry, Angela M. 2009. Giving Circles: Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations and Democracy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Eisenstein, Hester. 2009. Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Evans, Stephanie, Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller, eds. 2009. African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Fisher, Robert, ed. 2009. The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

Fitzgerald, Joan. 2010. Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Gendron, Richard and G. William Domhoff. 2009. The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Hack, Gary, Eugenie Birch, Paul Sedway, Mitchell Silver, eds. Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice. Washington, D.C.: ICMA Press.

Hanlon, Bernadette, John Rennie Short and Thomas J. Vicino. 2010. Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitian Realities in the US. New York: Routledge.  

Hartman, Chester, ed. 2009. Made for Change: Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond. New York, NY: Lexington Books.

Hartman, Chester and Gregory Squires, eds. 2009. The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities. New York, NY: Routledge.

Hess, David J. 2009. Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice and Urban Development in the United States. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Martinez, Deirdre. 2009. Who Speaks for Hispanics? Hispanic Interest Groups in Washington. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 

Pyles, Loretta. 2009. Progressive Community Organizing: A Critical Approach for a Globalizing World. New York, NY: Routledge. 

Schleef, Debra J. and H.B. Cavalcanti. 2009. Latinos in Dixie: Class and Assimiliation in Richmond, VA. Albany, NY: Suny Press.

Sheth, Falguni A. 2009. Toward a Political Philisophy of Race. Albany, NY: Suny Press.

Simmons, Louise and Scott Harding, eds. 2009. Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice. New York, NY: Routledge Publishing.

Taylor, Henry Louis. 2009. Inside El Bario: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro's Cuba. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press.

Wacquant, Loci. 2009. Prisons of Poverty. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Weikart, Lynne A. 2009. Follow the Money: Who Controls New York City Mayors? Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Wingfield, Adia Harvey. 2009. Doing Business with Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield.

Yi, Joseph E. 2009. God and Karate on the Southside: Bridging Differences, Building American Communities. New York: NY: Lexington Books.