White Space, Black Hood

Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality

White Space, Black Hood
Sheryll Cashin
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4 Oct 2022 US
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The history and impact of ghettos as an institution and linchpin of inequality and a call for abolition of the new American caste. The "ghetto," and all of our ideas about it perform a political function that reinforces inequality and, as Sheryll Cashin argues, is the key holdover of the supremacist regime that has yet to be dismantled. Drawing on nearly two decades of research on cities including Baltimore, MD; St. Louis, MO; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; and Cleveland, OH, Cashin traces America' s investment in the ghetto before unpacking its legacy on today' s society, illustrating how a combination of white opportunity hoarding and divestment from Black neighborhoods has resulted in an anti-Black caste. While Jim Crow laws subordinated Blacks in the South, northern cities embarked on an intentional process of ghettoization, defining black space through redlining and other policies, and attributing the declining conditions caused by containment to the allegedly innate character of the people living there. Cashin calls for a third reconstruction to abolish of the state-sanctioned processes of American caste and offers a vision of emancipation premised on the voices and movements of the denizens they' ve wronged. She calls for investment in a new infrastructure of opportunity and inclusion in poor Black neighborhoods, including richly resourced schools and neighborhood centers, public transit, peacemaker fellowships, universal basic incomes, housing choice vouchers for descendants, and mandatory inclusive housing elsewhere. Deeply researched and sharply written, White Space, Black Hood makes clear our glaring deficiencies in undoing 20th century damage in the 21st century. Includes historical photos, maps, and charts that illuminate the history of ghettos as an institution and tactic of racial oppression.
"While extensively documented and amply footnoted, Cashin' s survey remains compelling and accessible to a general readership. A resonant, important argument that White supremacy and racial division poison life in our cities. " --Kirkus Reviews"In this brilliant and nuanced new volume, Sheryll Cashin exposes the ways in which American policy decisions, from the early twentieth century to the present, have constructed a ' residential caste system' resulting in the entrapment of Black people in high-poverty neighborhoods while ' overinvesting in affluent white spaces. ' Riveting and beautifully written, White Space, Black Hood convinces the reader of the centrality of geography in economic and social inequality. Cashin' s meticulously researched study will provide critically important information for scholars while being accessible to all readers. " --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "For anyone wondering if we have castes in the United States, White Space, Black Hood is the book for you. In pulling back the curtain on how residential segregation creates caste for some and economic profit for others, Cashin offers a clear-eyed view of the precarity of our present and provides a path toward a more equitable future. A scholar of segregation who has devoted her career to thinking about how we can find community across divides of all kinds, Cashin has written a book you will most definitely want to read. " --Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education"Sheryll Cashin is one of the most important civil rights scholars of our time and White Space, Black Hood is her magnum opus, the searing culmination of decades of research about the devastating consequences of segregation. Cashin builds on Michelle Alexander' s The New Jim Crow and Isabel Wilkerson' s Caste to take down liberal and conservative orthodoxies on race. (White) America is not ready for this book. " --Paul Butler, author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men"We need Sheryll Cashin' s scholarship to make sense of the racial inequalities that mar every urban community, and we need her vision to guide us to a more equal society. Illuminating, compassionate, and engrossing, White Space, Black Hood is an instant classic. " --Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together"If you want to understand how to dismantle structures and policies that undermine Black lives, this is the book. With analytical precision, Sheryll Cashin masterfully tells the story of how Black neighborhoods have been gutted by the system of housing anti-Blackness. Cashin ends with a call for abolition and repair that moves our nation closer to the destruction of anti-Black institutions and the healing of Black neighborhoods. White Space, Black Hood is clear, compelling, and demands our attention. " --Bettina L. Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive
Sheryll Cashin writes about race relations and inequality in America. Her scholarship on the relationships between geography and oppression have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR. Her books include Loving, Place Not Race, and The Failures of Integration. Cashin is Professor of Law at Georgetown University where she teaches Constitutional Law, and Race and American Law among other subjects. Cashin worked in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy, particularly concerning community development in inner-city neighborhoods. She resides in Washington, D. C. , with her husband and two sons.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780807007167
Published: 4 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 184

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