{"product_id":"the-street-a-photographic-field-guide-to-american-inequality-paperback","title":"The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNaa Oyo a. Kwate\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCamilo José Vergara\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eDarnell L. Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. \u003ci\u003eThe Street: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Inequality \u003c\/i\u003eprovides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using MacArthur fellow Camilo Jos  Vergara's intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden's residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNAA OYO A. KWATE is an associate professor of Africana studies and human ecology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An interdisciplinary social scientist with wide ranging interests in racial inequality and African American urban life, her books include \u003ci\u003eBurgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now\u003c\/i\u003e. She resides in Philadelphia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e DARNELL MOORE is the Director of Inclusion Strategy for Content \u0026amp; Marketing at Netflix. He is the co-managing editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Wire\u003c\/i\u003e and the writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia University. Named one of \u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e 100's most influential African Americans, Moore has been published in various media outlets including MSNBC, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEBONY\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e No Ashes in the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. He resides in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e CAMILO JOSÉ VERGARA is one of the nation's foremost urban documentarians, Vergara is a recipient of the 2012 National Humanities Medal and was named a MacArthur fellow in 2002. Since 1977, he has photographed some of the country's most impoverished neighborhoods, repeatedly returning to locations in New York, Newark, Camden, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He is also the author of numerous books, the most recent title being \u003ci\u003eDetroit is No Dry Bones\u003c\/i\u003e. He resides in New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 8.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768480858400,"sku":"9781978804500","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b0c02817fffee7683f94922628b86236.webp?v=1780330582","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-street-a-photographic-field-guide-to-american-inequality-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}