Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Michael B. Katz

2011 | 224 pages | Cloth $29.95 | Paper $24.95
American History | Public Policy
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Table of Contents

Prologue: The Death of Shorty
Chapter 1. What Is an American City?
Chapter 2. The New African American Inequality
Chapter 3. Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often?
Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban America
Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies

Notes
Index
Acknowledgments