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Nation of Neighborhoods
Benjamin Looker
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Description for Nation of Neighborhoods
Paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as both an endless problem and a possibility. Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political complexities of the idea of neighborhood in postwar America and how Americans grappled with vast changes in their urban spaces from World War II to the Reagan era. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood's significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. By studying the way these contests unfolded across a startling variety of genres-Broadway shows, radio plays, urban ethnographies, real estate documents, and even children's programming-Looker shows that the neighborhood ideal has functioned as a central symbolic site for advancing and debating theories about American national identity and democratic practice.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Condition
New
Weight
614g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226290317
SKU
V9780226290317
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About Benjamin Looker
Benjamin Looker teaches in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Point from Which Creation Begins : The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis.
Reviews for Nation of Neighborhoods
Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods is an extraordinary scholarly contribution, an original, deeply researched, elegantly written book that helps us look in fresh ways at postwar America. It represents the best of contemporary cultural history
sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change Looker s A Nation of Neighborhoods is an extraordinary scholarly contribution, an original, deeply researched, elegantly written book that helps us look in fresh ways at postwar America. It represents the best of contemporary cultural history sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change In this always-informative, insightful, and well-written book, Looker deftly manages his way through the tangle of moves and counter-moves of an enduring national discourse. . . . An important and necessary glimpse into the nation's moral geography.
Robert Beauregard Indiana Magazine of History This remarkable book . ., with its combination of a striking variety of sources and a close sensitivity to local detail, offers a groundbreaking new look at the politics and places of twentieth-century American cities. . . . Bursting at the seams with interesting materials . . . Looker deserves high praise for pulling off such an ambitious undertaking with such eloquence and sensitivity.
Garrett Dash Nelson Journal of Historical Geography Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods brilliantly explores the 'conflicted yet central role of neighborhood concepts' in the national imagination. . . . A sweeping analysis of wide-ranging sources. . . . The range of texts serving as examples in the chronologically organized chapters is staggering.
Robert Fisher Journal of American History Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods is an extraordinary scholarly contribution, an original, deeply researched, elegantly written book that helps us look in fresh ways at postwar America. It represents the best of contemporary cultural history
sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change
sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change Looker s A Nation of Neighborhoods is an extraordinary scholarly contribution, an original, deeply researched, elegantly written book that helps us look in fresh ways at postwar America. It represents the best of contemporary cultural history sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change In this always-informative, insightful, and well-written book, Looker deftly manages his way through the tangle of moves and counter-moves of an enduring national discourse. . . . An important and necessary glimpse into the nation's moral geography.
Robert Beauregard Indiana Magazine of History This remarkable book . ., with its combination of a striking variety of sources and a close sensitivity to local detail, offers a groundbreaking new look at the politics and places of twentieth-century American cities. . . . Bursting at the seams with interesting materials . . . Looker deserves high praise for pulling off such an ambitious undertaking with such eloquence and sensitivity.
Garrett Dash Nelson Journal of Historical Geography Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods brilliantly explores the 'conflicted yet central role of neighborhood concepts' in the national imagination. . . . A sweeping analysis of wide-ranging sources. . . . The range of texts serving as examples in the chronologically organized chapters is staggering.
Robert Fisher Journal of American History Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods is an extraordinary scholarly contribution, an original, deeply researched, elegantly written book that helps us look in fresh ways at postwar America. It represents the best of contemporary cultural history
sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change