Cracks in the Pavement
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Cracks in the Pavement

Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods

  1. 504 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cracks in the Pavement

Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods

About this book

Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor neighborhoods challenges much prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people, institutions, and culture in these communities. Over the course of nearly a decade, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski immersed himself in life in neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles to investigate how social change and social preservation transpire among the urban poor. Looking at five community mainstays—the housing project, the small grocery store, the barbershop and the beauty salon, the gang, and the local high school—he discovered how these institutions provide a sense of order, continuity, and stability in places often thought to be chaotic, disorganized, and disheartened. His provocative and ground-breaking study provides new data on urban poverty and also advances a new theory of how poor neighborhoods function, illuminating the creativity and resilience that characterize the lives of those who experience the hardships associated with economic deprivation.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables and Figures
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. A Theory of Life, Social Change, and Preservation in Poor Neighborhoods
  6. 2. Give Me Shelter: Competing Agendas for Life in Public Housing
  7. 3. A Living Refuge: Social Change and Preservation in the Housing Project
  8. 4. Provisions for Life: Making the Mom-and-Pop Store a Neighborhood Institution
  9. 5. Taking Care of Business: Social Change and Preservation in the Mom-and-Pop Store
  10. 6. Not Just a Clip Joint: Hair Shops and the Institution of Grooming
  11. 7. Life on the Edge: Social Change and Preservation in the Hair Shop
  12. 8. The Gang’s All Here: Fathering a Bastard Institution
  13. 9. All in the Family: Mothering the Gang as a Bastard Institution
  14. 10. Whither the Neighborhood High School? Contending Roles and Functions
  15. 11. School Works: The Dynamics of Two Production Lines
  16. Conclusion
  17. Methodological Appendix
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index