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In Levittown's shadow poverty in America's wealthiest postwar suburb
"Inverting the conventional history of American suburbanization, Tim Keogh turns the spotlight from wealth and freedom to poverty and inequality. Focusing on the archetypal Long Island communities of the postwar era, Keogh shows that a key driver of suburban development and the segregation it e...
| Main Author: | Keogh, Tim (Historian) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, IL ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2023.
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| Series: |
Historical studies of urban America.
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| Summary: |
"Inverting the conventional history of American suburbanization, Tim Keogh turns the spotlight from wealth and freedom to poverty and inequality. Focusing on the archetypal Long Island communities of the postwar era, Keogh shows that a key driver of suburban development and the segregation it embodied was not housing but employment. Inequality and injustice were baked into suburban development, but housing discrimination was a secondary expression of this, not a primary cause. As a result, equity-minded suburbs that focused on housing policy rather than employment opportunities were doomed to fail. Keogh hopes to motivate more effective approaches to contemporary inequity by changing our understanding of how it took shape historically"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226827735 0226827739 9780226827759 0226827755 |
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