{"product_id":"terraformed-joy-white-9781912248681","title":"Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn uncompromising wake-up call. Joy White tells uncomfortable truths and blows apart our understanding of racism, crime and policing in our inner-cities.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city communities, widening inequality and entrenching poverty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTerraformed\u003c\/i\u003e, Joy White offers an insiders view of Forest Gate -- an urban neighbourhood in London -- analysing how these issues affect the black youth of today. Connecting the dots between music, politics and the built environment, it centres on the lived experiences of black youth who have had it all: huge student debt, invisible homelessness, custodial sentences, electronic tagging, surveillance, arrest, police brutality, issues with health and well-being, and of course, loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart ethnography, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eTerraformed\u003c\/i\u003e uses the history of Newham, London as an example of inner-city life across the globe and considers how young black lives are affected by racism, capitalism and austerity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912248689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912248681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Joy White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941488656639,"sku":"9781912248681","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0be4cbe5-9735-4481-b566-3fd40e33b6b9.jpg?v=1681453217","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terraformed-joy-white-9781912248681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}