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Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia Paperback - 1997

by David L. Kirp


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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.

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The day was unseasonably warm for an autumn Sunday in southern New Jersey.

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  • Title Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia
  • Author David L. Kirp
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-08-01
  • ISBN 9780813524566 / 0813524563
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6 x 0.86 in (23.01 x 15.24 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: New Jersey
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.550

About the author

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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