Description: Examining the 1990's rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto', this book investigates how race and political economy dynamically connect in cities ('racial economy') to deepen deprivation.
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Cities and Race details how fluid racial characterizations change in response to political economic pressures.
David Wilson's commitment to making scholarship useful for undoing the cruelties of anti-black racism in general, and the new black ghettos in particular, is without question.
reviewd by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California, USA
At his best, Wilson lays bare the inner working of this discourse through the scalar common sense it creates. Bradley Gardener Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences CUNY Graduate Centre