In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
In cities large and small across America, universities have become the dominant companies -- and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.Urban universities play an outsized role in America's cities. They gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain large private police forces that target the predominantly Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. And they shape the cultural life of cities.In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes us on…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-56858-891-9
- EAN: 9781568588919
- Produktnummer: 34368835
- Verlag: PublicAffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Davarian L. Baldwin is a leading urbanist, historian, and cultural critic. The Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College, Baldwin is the author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC, 2007) and co-editor, with Minkah Makalani, of the essay collection Escape From New York! The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (Minnesota, 2013). He has received grants and fellowships from Harvard University, the University of Virginia, the University of Notre Dame, and the Logan Nonfiction Writing Fellowship from the Carey Institute for the Global Good. He lives with his wife and children in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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