Left Behind in Rosedale: Race Relations and the Collapse of a Neighborhood

by Scott Cummings and Scott L. Cummings

Book Overview

Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings' unique book breathes human life into one of the most serious problems facing the nation's cities: the ghettoization of urban neighborhoods. Transcending demographic and statistical analysis, he vividly and passionately tells the story of ghettoization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813334209
• ISBN13: 9780813334202
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Solid, truthful look at a community in crisis.

Scott Cummings does an outstanding job here. His objectiveobservations provide a clear and compelling look at a community incrisis. He does not draw any pat conclusions but crafts his writing to provoke thought. Don't look for a happy ending here! The fairy princess got mugged in Rosedale!