Recensione:
"Remarkably well written, deal[s] with important and fascinating issues, and confront[s] social problems that do indeed require new approaches, new techniques, and new spirit that can reduce the pain that disharmony produces."--Roger Starr, Washington Times
"Useful and engagingly written"--Michael Kenney, Boston Globe
"Kirp shows how the border disputes besetting America's geographic and moral communities play out in . . . racial linguistic and sexual identity."--Washington Post
Contenuti:
INTRODUCTION: Community Theater 3
OUR TOWNS
CHAPTER 1: Ironies in the Fire: After the Berkeley-Oakland Conflagration, a Man-made Nightmare 25
CHAPTER 2: Talk, Not Guns, in a San Francisco Neighborhood 47
CHAPTER 3: A Suburb at Odds: The Epic Battle of Mount Laurel 60
CHAPTER 4: Houses Divided: A Gay Man, His Teenage Neighbor, and a Murder 107
PLACES
CHAPTER 5: What School Choice Really Means: Fact and PR in East Harlem 133
CHAPTER 6: Good Schools in Bad Times: Reading, Writing--and Hustling for Support--in LA 160
CHAPTER 7: Tales from the Bright Side: The Surprising Success of America's Biggest Community College 174
CHAPTER 8: Uncommon Decency: Pacific Bell Responds to AIDS 193
CHAPTER 9: The Politics of Needle Exchange: Why What's Banned in Boston Is "Best Practice" in Seattle 226
CHAPTER 10: Look Back in Anger: Hemophilia Activism and the Politics of Medical Disaster 248
CHAPTER 11: A Boy's Life: Deadly Sexual Secrets in a Southern Town 267
CHAPTER 12: No Angels, No Demons: Shelby Steele Refuses to See Things in Black and White 287
CHAPTER 13: The Many Masks of Richard Rodriguez 307
EPILOGUE: Fault Lines 331
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 335
INDEX 339
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