Review of Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy. NY, Metropolitan Books, 2021. By Tom Angotti Throughout the history of this nation built on slavery and four hundred years of white rule, the struggles for racial justice gave rise to many dreams as well as concrete efforts to build communities based on racial justice, … [Read more...] about Floyd McKissick’s Soul City, Black Capitalism and Black Liberation
Review of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York
By Sheryl-Ann Simpson Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York Edited by Tarry Hum, Ron Hayduk, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr., and Michael Alan KrasnerTemple University Press392 pages • $42.95 In the introduction to Immigrant Crossroads, co-editor Tarry Hum outlines that forty-eight percent of the 2.3 million residents of … [Read more...] about Review of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York
Indigenous Community Control Across the Pacific More Important than Ever
By Kevin Lujan Lee This piece was initially published in Veterans for Peace as part of Planners Network's City’s Call for Big Ideas op-ed series. On March 26, 2020, an aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, docked on the unincorporated territory of Guåhan (Guam), home to the Indigenous CHamorus of the Marianas. With approximately two dozen sailors testing … [Read more...] about Indigenous Community Control Across the Pacific More Important than Ever
Review: Diverging Spaces for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
By Hilary Wilson Diverging Spaces for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing Akira Drake Rodriguez The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2021268 pages • $36.95 If it seemed like the crisis in housing affordability couldn’t get worse at the start of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the problem. Millions of Americans are now unsure … [Read more...] about Review: Diverging Spaces for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
No YIMBYs on Stolen Land
By Toshio Meronek and Ralowe Ampu In national stories about the housing unaffordability crisis, San Francisco is a cautionary tale. The stark gap between rich and poor, incredible eviction rates, racialized homelessness, and phasing out of tenant protections and public housing are complex problems. But according to the popular narrative circulated by corporate media, and … [Read more...] about No YIMBYs on Stolen Land