Why Dont American Cities Burn? Katz Michael B.Paperback
Why Dont American Cities Burn? Katz Michael B.Paperback At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. For…
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Why Dont American Cities Burn? Katz Michael B.Paperback
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. For Michael B. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia--one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers.
charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such events. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Shorty exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference that plague American cities.Introduced by the gripping narrative of this murder and its circumstances, Why Don't American Cities Burn? Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.
He shows how the