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)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Introduction
-
Whiteness and Marginality at the Center
-
Race, Body, and Marginality
-
New Frontiers of Marginality
-
Conclusion
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