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In 2010, Heather Ann Thompson wrote that American cities suffered “deep racial and political conflicts” and “experienced tremendous distress from substantial economic disinvestment” after WWII. She challenged researchers to explain how the expansion of the carceral state and the rise of mass incarceration played a role.
Interviewed by Ryan Reft
In Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America, Michael Glass explores the growth of Long Island’s suburbs as a proxy for the nation. In particular, Glass reveals the role that debt and debt financing played in constructing a suburban landscape that by the 1950s and 60s had become mired in complicat...
This article includes excerpts from A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and
the Dream of Affordable Housing by Betty Boyd Caroli and published by Oxford
University Press in the US © Caroli 2/2/26. Used by permission. All rights
reserved. Footnotes have been removed to ease reading.
Lectures formed the centerpiece of Mary’s days, and she pl...