Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs: History, Politics, and Prospects

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 Introduction
  Christopher Niedt

PART I   Race, Class, and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century

2 Twenty-First-Century Suburban Demography: Increasing Diversity Yet Lingering Exclusion
   Nancy A. Denton and Joseph R. Gibbons
3 The Suburban Geography of Moral Panic: Low-Income Housing and the Revanchist Fringe
   L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Casey Gallagher
4 Protest on the Astroturf at Downtown Silver Spring: July 4, 2007
   June Williamson

PART II   Revealing Activist Histories

5 “In the Spirit of Equality”: Conflict, Dissonance, and the Potential for Transformative Educational Change
   Anne Galletta
6 Not Quite Suburban: Progressive Activism in Postwar Chicago
   Robert Gioielli
7 Fringe Politics: Suburban Expansion and the Mexican American Struggle for Alviso, California
   Aaron Cavin

Part III  Sustaining Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb

8 Maywood, Not Mayberry: Latinos and Suburbia in Los Angeles County
   Manuel Pastor
9 Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental Politics in a Changing Richmond
   Alex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein
10 Public Archaeology and Sense of Place in Alexandria, Virginia: An Exploration of the Changing Significance of Fort Ward Park
    Douglas R. Appler
11 First Suburbs and Nonprofit Housing: How Do Urban CDCs Develop Affordable Housing in Suburban Communities?
    JoAnna Mitchell-Brown
12 The Future of Fair Housing in a Diverse Suburbia
     john a. powell and Jason Reece


References
Contributors
Index