Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by Appelbaum, Yoni

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593449318)

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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by Appelbaum, Yoni

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

$20.00
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by Appelbaum, Yoni

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?

"At once a fascinating history and a blueprint for change, Stuck unravels a powerful and urgent story about the hidden forces that have shaped--and constrained--American opportunity ... a must-read work for anyone passionate about equity and the future of American mobility."--Gilbert King

We take it for granted that good neighborhoods--with good schools and good housing--are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case.

Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn't like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. Americans moved to new places with unprecedented frequency, and, for two hundred years, that remarkable mobility was the linchpin of American economic and social opportunity.

In this illuminating debut, Yoni Appelbaum, historian and journalist for The Atlantic, shows us that this idea has been under attack since reformers first developed zoning laws to ghettoize Chinese Americans in nineteenth-century Modesto, California. The century of legal segregation that ensued--from the zoning laws enacted to force Jewish workers back into New York's Lower East Side to the private-sector discrimination and racist public policy that trapped Black families in Flint, Michigan to Jane Jacobs' efforts to protect her vision of the West Village--has raised housing prices, deepened political divides, emboldened bigots, and trapped generations of people in poverty. Appelbaum shows us that these problems have a common explanation: people can't move as readily as they used to. They are, in a word, stuck.

Cutting through more than a century of mythmaking, Stuck tells a vivid, surprising story of the people and ideas that caused our economic and social sclerosis and lays out common-sense ways to get Americans moving again.

Author: Yoni Appelbaum
ISBN-10: 0593449312
ISBN-13: 9780593449318
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2026
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.81d
By Yoni Appelbaum
By Yoni Appelbaum
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Yoni Appelbaum is a deputy executive editor of The Atlantic and a social and cultural historian of the United States. Before joining The Atlantic, he was a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University. He previously taught at Babson College and at Brandeis University, where he received his PhD in American history.

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