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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.
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Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $15.99
Read more >
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $15.99
Read more >
