The new segregation

I argue that there has emerged since the 1960s new forms of racial segregation in the United States. Placing this claim in context of earlier historical shifts in the manifestation of segregation—the north-south segregation of post-Reconstruction, the dramatic urban neighborhood segregation emerging in the first half of the twentieth century—I map out both the character and effects of this segregation, and the political, economic, and sociocultural conditions that combine to produce it. Thus while the old segregation was “activist” and for the most part monolithic, the new segregation is “conservationist,” preference driven, and class differentiated. I suggest that a new form of segregation has emerged also, and outline the contours of this ideological representation.     

Some new books

All shades of political opinion in the Federal Republic are stressing the importance of ‘German national identity’.     

Adopting new technologies

John Carey is director of Greystone Communications, a telecommunications research and planning firm in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He also serves as consultant to the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University and is an affiliated research fellow at Columbia’s Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies.     

The new nihilism

He is author of Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason; Winners and Losers; Ideology and Utopia in the United States;among other works.     

科学化:新形势下党的建设新目标

“提高党的建设科学化水平”是党的十七届四中全会提出的新命题,也是加强和改进新形势下党的建设新目标。此命题的提出是以中国共产党执政印年的丰富经验为重要前提的。提高党的建设科学化水平,既是解决党内存在的两大问题、应对四大考验的需要,也是建设马克思主义执政党的新要求。以科学理论指导党的建设、以科学制度保障党的建设、以科学方法推进党的建设是提高党的建设科学化水平的路径选择。     

HOPE VI relocation: Moving to new neighborhoods and building new ties

Abstract

Severely distressed public housing developments are being torn down and redeveloped through the HOPE (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) VI initiative in cities across the United States. This article examines how families from one HOPE VI site decided where to move and how they fared in building social ties with their new neighbors. Semistructured interviews from a random sample of 41 families with children were analyzed.

Families that chose to move into public housing expressed concern about the unreliability of the Section 8 program and their own ability to pay the extra utility costs involved. Those who used Section 8 vouchers to relocate had more education on average and made this choice to improve the neighborhood for their families. Over the past two years, regardless of what kind of neighborhood they moved into, families have not rebuilt the close ties most of them had in their former neighborhood.     

Neo versus new isolationism

the latter was published by Transaction.