Overview
- Displays a variety of perspectives with similar outcomes across varied groups
- Presents a focus on systemic mechanisms that target some groups and not others
- Offers a well documented alter-narrative to a number of mainstream stereotypes
Part of the book series: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality (NCUM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Whiteness and Marginality at the Center
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Race, Body, and Marginality
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New Frontiers of Marginality
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Conclusion
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Zachary S. Ritter, PhD, conducted research on Asian international students' experiences with cross-racial interaction. He was most recently Interim Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity, at Harvey Mudd College, where he helped lead equity-centered workshops. At University of Redlands, he taught Social Justice History, Qualitative Methods, and helped create a healthy masculinity program called DUDES. At UCLA, he taught Intergroup Dialogue courses on race and socio-economic status and participated in NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish partnership.
Kenneth R. Roth, Research Associate, The CHOICES Project, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Roth is a journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker, and focuses his research on media representations and ways personal decisions may influence education and employmentchoices.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marginality in the Urban Center
Book Subtitle: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond
Editors: Peary Brug, Zachary S. Ritter, Kenneth R. Roth
Series Title: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96466-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96465-2Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96466-9Published: 22 December 2018
Series ISSN: 3005-0146
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0154
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Racism