Practicing Community: Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood

by Rhoda H. Halperin

Book Overview

Cincinnati's East End river community has been home to generations of working-class people. This racially mixed community has roots that reach back as far as seven generations. But the community is vulnerable. Developers bulldoze "raggedy" but affordable housing to build upscale condos, even as East Enders fight to preserve the community by participating in urban development planning controlled by powerful outsiders.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292731175
• ISBN13: 9780292731172
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

an anthropolgical book for the layman too.

Dr. Halperin's work on the East End of Cincinnati,Ohio is an easy read for everyone,you do not have to be a Phd.to appreciate this book.The author obviously lived this book and knew not only the neighborhood but the East Enders themselves on a very personal level,only then could she write about this community and the changes it has gone through in the last decade with such knowledge and insight.This should be a must read for anyone undergoing changes in their life or their community.Thank you Dr.Halperin for a book that everyone can understand and learn from.