by William Julius Wilson, Richard P. Taub
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From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these riveting first-person narratives and the meticulous research which accompanies them reveal honest yet disturbing realities—ones that remind us why the elusive American dream of integrated neighborhoods remains a priority of race relations in our time.
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Accurate in descriptions, little insight in conclusions, 2008-05-20
After figuring out the names of the real neighborhoods from the census data (which I thought was unnecessary to hide there names, so here they are: Beltway = Clearing, Dover = Brighton Park, Archer Park = Little Village, and Groveland = Avalon Park), I thought the descriptions the tensions in the neighborhood were fairly accurate and unbiased. The authors' analysis and conclusions, however, lacked insight. They also unnecessarily ranted on the Bush Administration. Their prescription for integrating neighborhoods was basically form multiracial coalitions and throw a ton of Federal money at the problem. Overall, I'm excited that these parts of Chicago are being investigated but unimpressed by the level of scholarship.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Neighborhood Rundowns, 2007-03-20
The authors gathered results of information collected by researchers in four Chicago area neighborhoods over the past many years. Unfortunately, the outcome is a rather surface descriptive of racial and ethnic and class interaction among Black, Hispanic and White populations. There are several simple PowerPoint-like graphs comparing sizes of ethnic populations; but, beyond that, important statistics are few, relevant quotes from residents and officials are wanting...and actual differences between the neighborhoods are sketchy at best. Although Wilson and Taub do describe relevant differences about four outlying sections of the city (which are miles apart), a dry "sameness" pervades each of the chapters on each of the neighborhoods.
Maybe it's that I'm Chicago-familiar, but I was invariably wondering why the real names of the neighborhoods had to be hidden for this book. As I read, I often tried to figure out exactly where each of the places were/are as there are no such neighborhoods as "Beltway," "Dover," "Archer Park," "Groveland." The authors alert readers to the name-changes; yet, they don't say why this might have been necessary in a serious book of this sort. "Racial, Ethnic and Class Tensions" explained? -More like "described." --Not a bad work. I learned a few things but expected much more detail in what was an overly compact, quick read.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
dry, sciologicall analysis of 5 southwest chicago suburbs, 2007-03-18
dry, sociological analysis of 5 southwest chicago suburbs---reads a bit like an academic dissertation, but interesting in its conclusions.
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