Book Reviews

This area of the Cyberhood includes book reviews 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 Book Review(s)

Rea, Tom. 2006. Devil's gate: owning the land, owning the story. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Reviewed by Peter Korsching. 

Past Book Reviews

Abu-Lughod, Janet. 2007. Race, Space and Riots in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Paul J Draus.  

Alexander, Michelle. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press. Reviewed by Nancy Murray.

Baum, Howell S. 2010. Brown in Baltimore: School Desegration and the Limits of Liberalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Henig.

Bean, C. Jonathan ed. 2009. Race and Liberty: The Essential Reader. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press. Reviewed by Robert L. Boyd.

Blokland, Tolja and Mike Savage, eds. 2008. Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Reviewed by Robert Mark Silverman. 

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. 2008. Public Housing that Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Philadeliphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Reviewed by David M. Brown.

Buckley, Jack and Mark Schneider. 2007. Charter Schools: Hope or Hype? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Frederick M. Hess.

Capeheart, Loretta and Dragan Milovanovic. 2007. Social Justice: Issues, Theories and Movements. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Reviewed by A.M.J Hunt.

Cazenave, Noel A. 2011. The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relations in American Cities. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Reviewed by Gregory D. Squires. 

Crouter, Ann C. and Allen Booth. 2009. Work-Life Policies. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press. Reviewed by Sunny L. Munn.

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

Fairfield, John D. 2010. The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Reviewed by Carol Abbott.

Flores, Kim Sabo. 2008. Youth Participation Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Reviewed by Esther Farmer.

Graham, Stephen. 2010. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. London: Verso. Reviewed by Kristian Williams.   

Guggenheim, David 2010. Waiting For Superman. Reviewed By Elizabeth Dutro

Hartman, Chester and Squires, Gregory D. 2010. The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities. New York: Rutledge. Reviewed by Felix O. Chima.

Hicks, Michael J. 2007. The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. Reviewed by Joshua C. Hall. 

Howard, W.T., ed. 2008. Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Reviewed by Alhaji Conteh. 

Hutton, Thomas A. 2010. The New Economy of the Inner-City: Restructuring, Regeneration, and Dislocation the the Twenty-First-Century Metropolis. New York: Routledge. Reviewed By Peter J Mallow, AICP.

Hytrek, G and K.M. Zentgraf. 2008. America Transformed: Globalization, Inequality, and Power. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tello Buntin.

Iceland, J. 2009. Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Reviewed by Benjamin Roth.

Jaffee, Daniel. 2007. Brewing Justice: Fair trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival. Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed by Dean Larkin.

Jewell, Joseph O. 2007. Race, Reform, and the Making of the Middle Class. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Reviewed by Alford A. Young, Jr. 

Johnson, Heather Beth. 2006. The American Dream and the Power of Wealth. New York, NY: Routledge. Reviewed by Aaron M. Pallas.  

Lacy, Karyn. Blue Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Reviewed by Maria Martinez-Cosio.  

Lang, Robert E. and Jennifer B. LeFurgy. 2007. Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution University Press. Reviewed by Robert Mark Silverman.  

Lobman, Carrie and Matthew Lundquist. 2007. Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum. Williston, VT: Teachers College Press. Reviewed by Esther Farmer.

Macek, Steve. 2006. Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and Moral Panic Over the City. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnisota Press. Reviewed by Gerry Mooney. 

Mattingly, D.J. and E.R. Hansen, eds. 2006. Women and Change at the US - Mexico Border: Mobility, Labor and Activism. BerkeTuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Reviewed by Sandra J. Mulryan.

Meyers, Dowell. 2007. Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future ofAmerica. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Reviewed by Charles Hirschman.  

Minchin, Timothy J. and John A. Salmond. 2011. After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Reviewed by David Hamilton Golland.

Montiel, Miguel, Tomas Atencio and E.A. "Tony" Mares. 2009. Resolana: Emerging Chicano Dialogues on Community and Globalization. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Reviewed by Cecilia Hundskopf Giusti.

New York Review of Books. 2001. The Grim Threat to British Universities. New York, NY: The New York Review of Books. Reviewed by Simon Head.

North, Peter. 2007. Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Mary-Beth Raddon.

Orum, Anthony M. and Zachary P. Neal. 2010. Common Ground: Readings and Reflections on Public Space. New York: Routledge. Reviewed by Lyn H. Lofland.

Owens, Michael Leo. 2007. God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church State Collaboration in Black America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Reviewed by Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs.

Pino, Nathan and Michael D. Waitrowski, eds. 2006. Democratic Policing in Transitional and Developing Countries. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Reviewed by Megan O'Neill.   

Prashad, Vijay. 2007. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. New York, NY: The New Press. Reviewed by Daniel Egan.

Radkau, Joachim. 2009. Max Weber: A Bibliography. Oxford, UK: Polity Press. Reviewed by Jos K. N. Raadschelders.

Rea, Tom. 2006. Devil's gate: owning the land, owning the story. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Reviewed by Peter Korsching.

Roberts-DeGennaro, M., and Fogel, S. J., Eds. 2011. Using Evidence to Inform Practice for Community and Organizational Change. Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books. Reviewed by Michael G. Bass and Edward Potts.

Rojas, Fabio. 2007. From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Reviewed by Mario Luis Small. 

Ross, Stephen and John Yinger. 2002. The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Reviewed by Kelly Patterson

Savitch, H.V. 2008. Cities in a Time of Terror: Space, Territory, and Local Resilience. New York, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Reviewed by Ernest Sternberg.  

Sheridan, Lynnaire M. 2009. I Know it's Dangerous: Why Mexicans Risk their Lives to Cross the Border. Reviewed By Debra Rose Wilson and William A. Wilson.

Skocpol, Theda, Ariana Liazos and Marshall Ganz. 2006. What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Johann N. Neem.

Silverman, Robert Mark, ed. 2004. Community-Based Organizations: The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context in Contemporary Urban Society. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. Reviewed by Theresia Williams. 

Thompson, J. Phillip. 2005. Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Rapheal J. Sonenshein.  

Vargas, Joao H. Costa. 2006. Catching Hell in the City of Angeles: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan.  

Wacquant Loci. 2009. Prisons of Poverty. Mineapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Jill Horner.

Watson, Douglas and John C. Morris eds. 2008. Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development. Athens, GA: Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia. Reviewed by Ivan Miestchovich.

Werbach, Adam. 2009. Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press. Reviewed by Kyle M.Woosnam.

Wilkins Craig L. 2007. The Aesthetics of Equity: notes on race, space, architecture and music. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Richard E. Lloyd.

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