Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia by Kirp, David L.

Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813524566)

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Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia by Kirp, David L.

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

$43.95
Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia by Kirp, David L.

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

$43.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: David L. Kirp, John P. Dwyer, Larry A. Rosenthal
ISBN-10: 0813524563
ISBN-13: 9780813524566
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1997
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.00w x 0.86d
By David L. Kirp
By David L. Kirp
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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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