The Price of Paradise
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2880-7 (ISBN)
Arguing that there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt investigates the role that place plays in our thinking and how we have organized our communities to create or deny opportunity. Legal rules and policies that promoted mobility for most citizens simultaneously stifled and segregated a growing minority by race, class and—most importantly—place.
A conversation about America at the crossroads, The Price of Paradise is a multilayered exploration of the legal, economic and cultural forces that contribute to the squeeze on the middle class, the hidden dangers of growing income and wealth inequality and the literature on how growth and consumption patterns are environmentally unsustainable.
David Dante Troutt is Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at the Rutgers University-Newark Law School. He also serves as Director of the Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Law School. Troutt is a columnist, novelist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, most recently After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina.
Introduction 1 Mutuality: The Thief, the Preacher, and the Late-Night Lawyer 2 All This I Made Myself: Assuming That Middle-Class Lives Are Self-Sufficient 3 Keep Your Distance: Assuming That Middle-Class Status Requires Distance from the Poor 4 The Promise Half Empty: Assuming That Segregation Is a Thing of the Past 5 We Renamed the Problem and It Disappeared: Assuming That Racism No Longer Limits Minority Chances 6 Islands without Paradise: Assuming That Poverty Results from Weak Values and Poor Decisions 7 Raceless Wonders: Assuming That Racial Labels No Longer Matter 8 The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America AcknowledgmentsNotes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.11.2016 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 408 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4798-2880-7 / 1479828807 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4798-2880-7 / 9781479828807 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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