Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs

Christopher Niedt is Academic Director for the National Center for Suburban Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hofstra University.  He is co-editor (with Marc Silver) of Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunity in the Wake of Crisis.

• 1 IntroductionChristopher NiedtPART I   Race, Class, and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century2 Twenty-First-Century Suburban Demography: Increasing Diversity Yet Lingering ExclusionNancy A. Denton and Joseph R. Gibbons3 The Suburban Geography of Moral Panic: Low-Income Housing and the Revanchist FringeL. Owen Kirkpatrick and Casey Gallagher4 Protest on the Astroturf at Downtown Silver Spring: July 4, 2007June WilliamsonPART II   Revealing Activist Histories5 “In the Spirit of Equality”: Conflict, Dissonance, and the Potential for Transformative Educational ChangeAnne Galletta6 Not Quite Suburban: Progressive Activism in Postwar ChicagoRobert Gioielli7 Fringe Politics: Suburban Expansion and the Mexican American Struggle for Alviso, CaliforniaAaron CavinPart III  Sustaining Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb8 Maywood, Not Mayberry: Latinos and Suburbia in Los Angeles CountyManuel Pastor9 Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental Politics in a Changing RichmondAlex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein10 Public Archaeology and Sense of Place in Alexandria, Virginia: An Exploration of the Changing Significance of Fort Ward ParkDouglas R. Appler11 First Suburbs and Nonprofit Housing: How Do Urban CDCs Develop Affordable Housing in Suburban Communities?JoAnna Mitchell-Brown12 The Future of Fair Housing in a Diverse Suburbiajohn a. powell and Jason ReeceReferencesContributorsIndex

"[A] comprehensive multidisciplinary view of modern suburbs in America. Christopher Niedt has assembled essays from historians, social psychologists, sociologists, and demographers, in order to investigate how political and social action arises and is organized in suburban locations. From issues of suburban space use to immigrant incorporation, the authors use both historic and contemporary examples to outline how residents unite to address distinct issues faced by suburbanites... This collection of essays will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of urban studies and spatial demography, as many focus on the particular use of space within suburban environments, as well as the distinctions which set suburbs apart from cities as a unique spatial environment." - Contemporary Sociology