Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia Versus Move

by Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Rob Watner-Pacifici

Book Overview

In the early 1980s the radical group MOVE settled into a rowhouse in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of west Philadelphia, beginning years of confrontations with neighbors and police over its anti-establishment ways and militant stance against all social and political institutions. On May 13, 1985, following a period of increased MOVE activity and threats by neighbors to take matters into their own hands, the city moved from bureaucratic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226869776
• ISBN13: 9780226869773
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"