Kenneth T. Jackson
Auteur van Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
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- Jackson, Kenneth T.
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- Jackson, Kenneth Terry
- Geboortedatum
- 1939-07-27
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- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
Mt. Kisco, New York, USA - Opleiding
- University of Chicago (MA | 1963 | PhD | 1966)
University of Memphis (BA | 1961) - Beroepen
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- Jackson, Barbara Bruce (wife)
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- Columbia University
United States Air Force
Society of American Historians
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- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
Bancroft Prize (1986)
Francis Parkman Prize (1986)
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- they both have the effect of protecting the interests of the “in” group against the marginalized in American (and for that matter Canadian) society
- they hijack public resources for private ends
We know that gentrification pushes individuals in marginal jobs far from their place of work, or often into intolerable living conditions close to their work. It happened in 19th century New York as well as 21st century London and Paris.
Suburbanization — mostly a N. American phenomenon — causes government to build vast networks of highways to support the wealthy few in far-flung and increasingly gated communities.
It’s not good for society and it sure as shooting isn’t good for the environment.
In “Crabgrass Frontier,” author Kenneth Jackson demonstrates how the rise of suburbs reinforced the racial divide in America.
- suburbs were allowed to opt out of public housing for propertyless African Americans
- zoning bylaws have been used to redraw the urban map and isolate marginalized groups
- Federal financing of home mortgages biased financing toward white veterans and their communities after the war, and even in Roosevelt programs in the wake of the Depression
It almost seems as though nothing happens in America that isn’t tied to race.
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