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Book Review: Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb

Book Review: Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an... Book Reviews THIS AIN’T CHICAGO:RACE,CLASS, AND REGIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-SOUL SOUTH, by Zandria F. Robinson. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1422-9; 224 pp. (#29.95 Paper). Reviewed by Michael Ian Borer University of Nevada, Las Vegas Evidenced by many of the articles published throughout many of the issues of this journal, the notion of “place” is of considerable concern for community and urban sociologists. Place, not unlike its significantly looser and more nebulous cousin “space,” tends to be used or approached either as an empirically and geographically specific location or as an analytic concept and abstraction. Analyses of particular material places have ranged from small or large “third places” like a coffee shop, community garden, or sports arena and have ranged from small settlements like rural towns to grand cities and their suburban hinterlands. They also range in regard to the uses and meanings people give to them. One needs only to read Eli Anderson’s tour of Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia to recognize the divergent meanings a single street can hold. “People and places have a dialectical relationship,” Zandria Robinson tells us. “[W]e influence the places where we live out our lives, and those http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb

City and Community , Volume 14 (1): 1 – Mar 1, 2015

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© 2015 American Sociological Association
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1535-6841
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1540-6040
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10.1111/cico.12093
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Book Reviews THIS AIN’T CHICAGO:RACE,CLASS, AND REGIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-SOUL SOUTH, by Zandria F. Robinson. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1422-9; 224 pp. (#29.95 Paper). Reviewed by Michael Ian Borer University of Nevada, Las Vegas Evidenced by many of the articles published throughout many of the issues of this journal, the notion of “place” is of considerable concern for community and urban sociologists. Place, not unlike its significantly looser and more nebulous cousin “space,” tends to be used or approached either as an empirically and geographically specific location or as an analytic concept and abstraction. Analyses of particular material places have ranged from small or large “third places” like a coffee shop, community garden, or sports arena and have ranged from small settlements like rural towns to grand cities and their suburban hinterlands. They also range in regard to the uses and meanings people give to them. One needs only to read Eli Anderson’s tour of Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia to recognize the divergent meanings a single street can hold. “People and places have a dialectical relationship,” Zandria Robinson tells us. “[W]e influence the places where we live out our lives, and those

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