New book, Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century

Book Announcement

Mary E. Triece, Professor in the School of Communication at The
University of Akron has a new book, Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race,
Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First
Century, published by Lexington Books. Urban Renewal and Resistance
explores how urban spaces such as Detroit and Harlem are rhetorically
structured through neoliberal discourses that mask the racialized nature
of housing and health in American cities. The analysis focuses on city
planning documents, web sites, and media accounts, and draws on sights
from personal interviews in order to pull together a story of city
growth and its consequences, while keeping an eye on the ways city
residents continue to confront and resist control over their communities
through counter-narratives that challenge geographies of injustice.