Authors of Hometown Inequality and Neighborhood Defenders Meet Critics

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

In this panel, the authors of two new books that focus on inequality and local politics in the U.S. meet critics who will discuss both books.

Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics, by Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Raymond La Raja (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis, by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, and Maxwell Palmer (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Sub Unit

• Division 55: Class and Inequality

Chairs

• Brian F. Schaffner Tufts University

• Katherine Levine Einstein Boston University

• David Glick Boston University

• Maxwell B. Palmer Boston University

• Jesse H. Rhodes University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Raymond J. La Raja University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Presenters

• Sarah F. Anzia University of California-Berkeley

• Jonathan Collins Brown University

• Vladimir Kogan Ohio State University

• Jessica Luce Trounstine University of California, Merced

• Christopher Warshaw George Washington University