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In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb de Tim Keogh

In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb: Historical Studies of Urban America

Autor Tim Keogh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2023

Subliniem relevanța lucrării In Levittown’s Shadow pentru cercetătorii din domeniile istoriei urbane, sociologiei și politicilor publice, oferind o perspectivă critică necesară asupra mitului prosperității suburbane postbelice. În timp ce narațiunea clasică descrie exodul clasei de mijloc către subdiviziuni idilice, Tim Keogh demonstrează cum aceleași politici care au creat abundența au generat, simultan, o sărăcie structurală ignorată de decidenți. Notăm cu interes modul în care autorul folosește Long Island ca studiu de caz pentru a demonta ideea că sărăcia este un fenomen exclusiv urban.

Cartea este organizată riguros, începând cu transformarea industrială a suburbiilor și continuând cu analiza condițiilor precare de locuire — în mansarde, subsoluri sau anexe — care au găzduit forța de muncă esențială, dar prost plătită. Tim Keogh examinează în detaliu contrastul dintre angajații din industria de apărare, subvenționați de stat, și lucrătorii din servicii care întrețineau stilul de viață suburban, dar rămâneau blocați sub pragul subzistenței. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The New American Suburb de Katrin B. Anacker, însă In Levittown’s Shadow adoptă o abordare istorică mai profundă, ancorată în perioada de după 1945, spre deosebire de analiza bazată pe datele de recensământ recente ale lui Anacker. De asemenea, dacă Expanding the American Dream de Barbara M. Kelly privește casele din Levittown ca artefacte culturale ale clasei de mijloc, volumul de față dezvăluie „umbra” acestora: spațiile improvizate unde locuiau cei excluși din visul american. Prin cele 8 tabele și 13 ilustrații, textul oferă o bază empirică solidă pentru înțelegerea limitelor programelor federale de ipotecare și a eșecului „războiului împotriva sărăciei” în context suburban.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226827759
ISBN-10: 0226827755
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 13 halftones, 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Historical Studies of Urban America

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din urbanism și istorie socială care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile inegalității moderne. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată despre cum politicile publice pot crea segmente de populație invizibile. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege că problemele urbane actuale sunt indisolubil legate de istoria nespusă a suburbiilor, oferind lecții valoroase pentru combaterea sărăciei în prezent.

Despre autor

Tim Keogh este un istoric specializat în studiul inegalității și al istoriei urbane din Statele Unite. Prin cercetarea sa publicată de University of Chicago Press, el s-a impus ca o voce importantă în reinterpretarea perioadei postbelice americane. Lucrarea sa, In Levittown’s Shadow, a primit recunoaștere internațională, fiind inclusă pe listele de excelență ale Publishers Weekly în 2023, datorită modului meticulos în care a arhivat și analizat datele despre sărăcia suburbană, o temă adesea marginalizată în istoriografia tradițională.

Descriere scurtă

Named one of the best nonfiction books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly!
 
There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs: after 1945, white residents left cities for leafy, affluent subdivisions and the prosperity they seemed to embody. In Levittown’s Shadow tells us there’s more to this story, offering an eye-opening account of diverse, poor residents living and working in those same neighborhoods. Tim Keogh shows how public policies produced both suburban plenty and deprivation—and why ignoring suburban poverty doomed efforts to reduce inequality.
 
Keogh focuses on the suburbs of Long Island, home to Levittown, often considered the archetypal suburb. Here military contracts subsidized well-paid employment welding airplanes or filing paperwork, while weak labor laws impoverished suburbanites who mowed lawns, built houses, scrubbed kitchen floors, and stocked supermarket shelves. Federal mortgage programs helped some families buy orderly single-family homes and enter the middle class but also underwrote landlord efforts to cram poor families into suburban attics, basements, and sheds. Keogh explores how policymakers ignored suburban inequality, addressing housing segregation between cities and suburbs rather than suburbanites’ demands for decent jobs, housing, and schools.
 
By turning our attention to the suburban poor, Keogh reveals poverty wasn’t just an urban problem but a suburban one, too. In Levittown’s Shadow deepens our understanding of suburbia’s history—and points us toward more effective ways to combat poverty today.

Notă biografică

Tim Keogh is assistant professor of history at Queensborough Community College, part of the City University of New York.

Cuprins

Introduction

1. The Future Detroit of the East
From Residential to Industrial Suburbia

2. The Crabgrass Wasn’t Always Greener
Poverty Amidst Suburban Plenty

3. Attics, Basements, and Sheds
Housing the Poor during the Suburban Boom

4. Fair without Full Employment
The Limits of Equal Opportunity

5. The Suburban War on Poverty

6. Shouldering Their “Fair Share”
Why the Suburbs Could Not Resolve the “Urban Crisis”

7. The Long Island Miracle
Suburbia into the Next Century

Conclusion
Lessons from Long Island’s Past

Acknowledgments
Appendix
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Recenzii

“Keogh provides an accessible and convincing synthesis of statistics, institutional history, and sociological analysis. It’s a landmark account.”

“A brilliant analysis of suburban poverty.”

“As Keogh’s pathbreaking book In Levittown’s Shadow documents, the prosperity of postwar communities like Levittown depended on growing suburban poverty and exploitation elsewhere.” 

"Tim Keogh’s In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb drills deep into the social history of Long Island from the 1940s to the ’70s. . . . it’s powerfully illuminating."

“Impressively researched and passionately argued, In Levittown’s Shadow enriches suburban historiography. It also contributes usefully to an ongoing debate about just how far the US could or should move toward European-style social democracy.”

“Levittown is one of the most well-known popular symbols of the postwar American dream—and nightmare. Keogh’s must-read contribution to its prodigious historiography mainly expands on the latter. . . . Keogh grounds this history of poverty with a close examination of local property records, civic and government organizations, and life stories that he traces across multiple chapters.”

“A timely and substantive contribution to the expanding literature on suburban history and suburban studies. At a moment when planners, policymakers, and scholars are increasingly attentive to poverty, inequality, and racialized disadvantage beyond the central city, Keogh offers a rigorously researched and analytically sharp account that unsettles enduring myths about postwar suburban affluence. Focusing on Long Island, often treated as the quintessential landscape of middle-class prosperity, Keogh demonstrates that suburbanization and poverty were not opposing outcomes of the postwar political economy but deeply intertwined processes.” 

“In Levittown’s Shadow shows us how the postwar US suburb was both better and worse than you might think, establishing what we might even characterize as a social-democratic welfare state for some, but one built on the exploitation and immiseration of others. This excellent book thus complicates our histories of the character and development of the US welfare state, undermines the myth of the poverty-free suburb, and deepens our understandings of the long roots of today’s widespread suburban poverty.” 

“There are more people living below the poverty line in suburbs than in urban centers today. Keogh pulls back the curtain on the longer history of this suburban poverty, explaining how Americans embraced suburbs as exceptionally prosperous spaces while also writing policies that made inequality a core component of suburban growth. In Levittown’s Shadow is a compelling, urgent study—one that points a way out of this complex history toward a more equitable, just, and thriving future.”