By Colin Wood and Stephen M. Koeth Stephen M. Koeth’s bold new monograph, Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America contributes to an expanding field of religious, urban, and political historiography, while elucidating how America’s largest religious denomination shaped and was shaped by postwar suburbanization. The book offers a salient reappraisal of […]
By Robert Gioielli Teaching the history of racism in America can be a difficult thing. Not because students deny it, but because it is something that is so ubiquitous, so all encompassing, that many (particularly white) students let the idea roll over and past them. They know racism existed in the past and people did […]
Hurley, Amanda Kolson. Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2019. By Walter Greason For decades, urban historians have challenged the image of the suburb as a collection of, as Malvina Reynolds put it, “little boxes all the same.” The moment has arrived to introduce to the […]
Toronto’s suburbs have always been precisely the same as those of every other North American city: they have never conformed to stereotype. Now the stereotype – but do I really need to say this? – says that suburbs are low-density, white, middle-class residential environments. In varying combinations, however, Toronto’s suburbs have always included industry and […]
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