Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: An old problem in a New World?: 1. The return of the repressed: riots, ‘race’ and dualization in three advanced societies
  • Part I. From communal Ghetto to Hyperghetto: 2. The state and fate of the dark Ghetto at Century’s close
  • 3. The cost of racial and class exclusion in ‘Bronzeville’
  • 4. West side story: a high-insecurity ward in Chicago
  • Part II. Black belt, red belt: 5. From conflation to comparison: how Banlieues and Ghetto converge and contrast
  • 6. Stigma and division: from the core of Chicago to the Margins of Paris
  • 7. Dangerous places: violence, isolation and the State
  • Part III. Looking Ahead: urban marginality in the twenty-first century: 8. The rise of advanced marginality: specifications and implications
  • 9. Logics of urban polarization from below
  • Postscript: theory, history and politics in urban analysis
  • Acknowledgements and sources
  • References
  • Index.