This book looks at the movement of urban American blacks into the Midwest through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself. Pressing questions have plagued the community for decades: Why are people from Chicago coming here? Who gets to define community identity? Who makes decisions on housing, employment and education?
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Welcome to the Rural Ghetto: "Southeast Side" as "Little Chicago"
One. How News Explains Everyday Life
Two. Place and Its Purpose
Three. Building the Ghetto: Reading News as Cultural Mortar
Four. News of "The Inner City": Racializing the Southeast Side
Five. What's the Southeast Side? Using Mental Mapping to Construct Place
Six. Whose Southeast Side? Mapping Place
Seven. The Subtle Power of the Press: Place and Its Ideological Function
Eight. School News: Press Constructions of Schools-as-Place
Conclusion: On the Role of News, Place and Being Human
Epilogue: Beyond the Southeast Side: News Place-Making Elsewhere
Notes
References
Index