The new immigrants who have poured into the United States over the past thirty years are rapidly changing the political landscape of American cities. Like their

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deterioratin

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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.