Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Case Studies -- Chapter 1: The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories about Race and Racism in the United States -- Chapter 2: A Mexicana on Wheels: One Woman's Account of Moving About in Los Angeles -- Chapter 3: Getting a Ride with Ronny, Tom, and David: Coming of Age Onboard the Rapid Transit District Buses in Los Angeles in the 1980s -- Chapter 4: The Hasidim of North Brooklyn -- Chapter 5: A White Man in the Colored Bronx -- Part 2: Representing and Imagining Race: Language, Music, and Community -- Chapter 6: Individual Representations of Bicultural Nature Exiled in Urban Communities -- Chapter 7: Language Ideologies and Racial Formation in Latino Orlando -- Chapter 8: A Tale of Two Cities: Go-Go and Punk Music as Representation of Race and Washington, DC -- Chapter 9: Blues without Black People: Notes on New Orleans, Ethnic Cleansing, and the White Imagination -- Part 3: Physical and Mental Well-Being -- Chapter 10: Shopping Daze: Urban Supermarkets and Perinatal Health -- Chapter 11: You Can't Survive If You Don't Eat Meat: Food in the Asian Indian Diaspora -- Chapter 12: Community-Based Role Models: Ongoing Stories of Minority Male Mentoring -- Part 4: Housing and Space -- Chapter 13: Puerto Rican Community Gardens and Casitas of New York City -- Chapter 14: Healthcare Policy and Housing "Choice" Among Low-Income HIV Positive African American Women in Urban North Carolina -- Chapter 15: Now It's More Diverse,But It's Still Ghetto: Youth Discourses on Racial Diversity, Poverty, and the Dislocating "Ghetto" -- Chapter 16: You Can't Go Home…Again: Confinement, Displacement, and the Legacy of Public Housing in the Lives of Low-Income Black Americans -- Part 5: Politics and Activism.

Chapter 17: "Sangam Means Sacred Confluence": Gender, Geography, and Generation in a US Asian Indian Association -- Chapter 18: Race and Resistance: The Whitening of Hyde Park, Illinois, 1880-1920 -- Chapter 19: The Political Context for Understanding the Existence of the TRIO Program Upward Bound -- Part 6: Law and Justice -- Chapter 20: All the Tigers in the World: Race and Rehabilitation in an American Prison -- Chapter 21: "Officially Murdered!": Police Brutality, Internal Colonialism, and Black Liberation in 1930s Detroit -- Contributors.

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