Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It - Softcover

Uullilove, Mindy Thompson, M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345454235 ISBN 13: 9780345454232

Publisher: One World, 2005

Synopsis

Root Shock They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of assault. Vibrant city blocks--places rich in history--were reduced to garbage-strewn vacant lots. When a neighborhood is destroyed its inhabitants suffer "root shock" a traumatic stress reaction related to the destruction of one'... Full description

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Product Description:

An analysis of urban history and how it adversely affects American culture describes the traumatic consequences of neighborhood destruction, describing the federal urban renewal program that was responsible for displacement, demolition, and reconstruction within 1,600 black city neighborhoods between 1949 and 1973. Reprint.

About the Author:

Mindy Fullilove, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University, has done pioneering research on the effects of AIDS on African-American communities. She is the author of The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place. She lives in Englewood, New Jersey.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: One World
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0345454235
• ISBN 13: 9780345454232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292