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The Bernal Story: Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
Beth Roy
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Description for The Bernal Story: Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
Hardcover. The Bernal story is both a narrative of the process that helped restore good relations across lines of race and class, and also a guide for people seeking to resolve conflict with attention to class, race, emotion and power. Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
For eight years, the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights was mired in controversy. Traditionally a working-class neighborhood known for political activism and attention to community concerns, Bernal housed a diverse population of Latino, Filipino, and European heritage. The branch library, beloved in the community, was being renovated, raising the issue of whether to restore or paint over a thirty-year-old mural on its exterior wall. To some of the residents the artwork represented their culture and their entitlement to live on the hill. To others, the mural blighted a beautiful building. To resolve this seemingly intractable conflict, area officials convened ... Read more
For eight years, the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights was mired in controversy. Traditionally a working-class neighborhood known for political activism and attention to community concerns, Bernal housed a diverse population of Latino, Filipino, and European heritage. The branch library, beloved in the community, was being renovated, raising the issue of whether to restore or paint over a thirty-year-old mural on its exterior wall. To some of the residents the artwork represented their culture and their entitlement to live on the hill. To others, the mural blighted a beautiful building. To resolve this seemingly intractable conflict, area officials convened ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815633464
SKU
V9780815633464
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About Beth Roy
Beth Roy is a long-time mediator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, she teaches there in the Peace and Conflict Studies program. She is the author of 41 Shots...and Counting: What Amadou Diallo Teaches Us about Policing, Race, and Justice and coeditor of Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict ... Read more
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