The Right to Suburbia

"This wonderful book on new suburban renewal pushes gentrification scholars beyond the hegemony of urban-centric analysis by focusing on the gentrification pressures on Black and Latinx residents and their fight for the 'right to suburbia' in the DC suburbs. Full of lessons about organizing in the suburbs and building a suburban anti-displacement toolbox, The Right to Suburbia offers food for thought to other cities globally that are dealing with suburban gentrification and the question, What can we do about it?"--Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University "Intellectually and emotionally compelling and, frankly, difficult to put down. The Right to Suburbia is fluidly written, with an electric current of social criticism and concern for more than just suburban futures. This book will make a major contribution to the literature on urban and suburban history and planning."--Andrew Wiese, author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century "Willow Lung-Amam brings her deep knowledge of gentrification to the suburbs of Washington, DC. In this powerfully written book, she delineates the forces of racial capitalism that shape public and private disinvestment as well as reinvestment in three highly diverse suburban DC neighborhoods. This book constitutes an important contribution to urban and suburban studies."--Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap