Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

Detailed Contents ix

Ghetto, Banlieue, Favela, et caetera: Tools for Rethinking Urban Marginality 1

Prologue: An Old Problem in a New World? 13

1 The Return of the Repressed: Riots, ‘Race’ and Dualization in Three Advanced Societies 15

Part I From Communal Ghetto to Hyperghetto 41

2 The State and Fate of the Dark Ghetto at Century’s Close 43

3 The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in ‘Bronzeville’ 92

4 West Side Story: A High-Insecurity Ward in Chicago 119

Part II Black Belt, Red Belt 133

5 From Conflation to Comparison: How Banlieues and Ghetto Converge and Contrast 135

6 Stigma and Division: From the Core of Chicago to the Margins of Paris 163

7 Dangerous Places: Violence, Isolation and the State 199

Part III Looking Ahead: Urban Marginality in the Twenty-First Century 227

8 The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Specifications and Implications 229

9 Logics of Urban Polarization from Below 257

Postscript: Theory, History and Politics in Urban Analysis 280

Acknowledgements and Sources 288

References 291

Index 330