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)

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.

Past Book Reviews

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

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.

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

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. 

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.  

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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