Columbia University Press
Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt
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- Jason Hackworth
- Columbia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780231193726
- 8.6 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches
- 1.1 pounds
- Social Science > Discrimination
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause. Through a comparative study of shrinking Rust Belt cities, he argues that the rhetoric of the troubled inner city has served as a proxy for other social conflicts around race and class. In particular, conservatives have used images of urban decay to craft dog-whistle messages to racially resentful whites, garnering votes for the Republican Party and helping justify limits on local autonomy in distressed cities. The othering of predominantly black industrial cities has served as the basis for disinvestment and deprivation that exacerbated the flight of people and capital. Decline, Hackworth contends, was manufactured both literally and rhetorically in an effort to advance austerity and punitive policies. Weaving together analyses of urban policy, movement conservatism, and market fundamentalism, Manufacturing Decline highlights the central role of racial reaction in creating the problems American cities still face.
Author Bio
Jason Hackworth is professor in Geography & Planning Department of University of Toronto. His research interests include urban political economy, comparative urban policy, and ethno-racial conflict.
He has also authored . Faith Based: Religious neoliberalism and the politics of welfare in the United States published by University of Georgia Press and The Neoliberal City: Governance, ideology and development in American urbanism published by Cornell University Press.
Education
PhD Rutgers University (2000)
MA Arizona State University (1996)
MEP (Planning) Arizona State University (1996)
BA (Sociology) University of Cincinnati (1993)
Source: University of Toronto
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