Urban Underworlds
Download or Read eBook Urban Underworlds PDF written by Thomas Heise and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Thomas Heise |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780813547848 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0813547849 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Urban Underworlds by : Thomas Heise
Book excerpt: Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and fusing sociology, urban planning, and criminology with literary and cultural studies, it chronicles how and why marginalized populations-immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities-have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods.
