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Main Street

How a City's Heart Connects Us All

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Main Street

How a City's Heart Connects Us All

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to “help us name and solve our problems.” In an era of compounding crises including racial injustice, climate change, and COVID-19, the ability to rely on the power of community is more important than ever. However, Fullilove describes how a pattern of disinvestment in inner-city neighborhoods has left Main Streets across the U.S. in disrepair, weakening our cities and leaving us vulnerable to catastrophe. In the face of urban renewal programs built in response to a supposed lack of “personal responsibility,” Fullilove offers “a different story, that of a series of forced displacements that had devastating effects on inner-city communities. Through that lens, we can appreciate the strength of segregated communities that managed to temper the ravages of racism through the Jim Crow era, and build political power and many kinds of wealth. . . . Only a very well-integrated, powerful community—one with deep spiritual principles—could have accomplished such a feat.” This is the power she hopes we will find again. Throughout Main Street, readers glimpse strong, vibrant communities who have conquered a variety of disasters, from the near loss of a beloved local business to the devastation of a hurricane. Using case studies to illustrate her findings, Fullilove turns our eyes to the cracks in city centers, the parts of the city that tend to be avoided or ignored. Providing a framework for those who wish to see their communities revitalized, Fullilove’s Main Street encourages us all to look both inward and outward to find the assets that already exist to create meaningful change.

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New Village Press

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1613321279

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9781613321270

Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite. Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of an assault. Vibrant city blocks - places rich in culture - were torn apart by freeways and other invasive development, devastating the lives of poor residents. Fullilove passionately describes the profound traumatic stress- the "root shock"that results when a neighborhood is demolished. She estimates that federal and state urban renewal programs, spearheaded by business and real estate interests, destroyed 1,600 African American districts in cities across the United States. But urban renewal didn't just disrupt black communities: it ruined their economic health and social cohesion, stripping displaced residents of their sense of place as well. It also left big gashes in the centers of cities that are only now slowly being repaired. Focusing on the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the Central Ward in Newark, and the small Virginia city of Roanoke, Dr. Fullilove argues powerfully against policies of displacement. Understanding the damage caused by root shock is crucial to coping with its human toll and helping cities become whole. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University. She is the author of five books, including Urban Alchemy.

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New Village Press

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161332040X

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Urban Alchemy

Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Urban Alchemy

Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities through investigation of urban segregation from a social heath perspective. "Fullilove passionately demonstrates how, through an urbanity of inclusion, we can heal our fractured cities to make them whole again. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore and identify ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart and the American urban design firm Rothschild Doyno Collaborative as guides as well as urban restoration projects from France and the US as exemplary cases, Fullilove identifies nine tools that can mend our broken cities and reconnect our communities to make them whole.

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1613320531

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Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mindy Fullilove

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Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mindy Fullilove

They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of assault. Vibrant city blocks—places rich in history—were reduced to garbage-strewn vacant lots. When a neighborhood is destroyed its inhabitants suffer “root shock”: a traumatic stress reaction related to the destruction of one’s emotional ecosystem. The ripple effects of root shock have an impact on entire communities that can last for decades. In this groundbreaking and ultimately hopeful book, Dr. Mindy Fullilove examines root shock through the story of urban renewal and its effect on the African American community. Between 1949 and 1973 this federal program, spearheaded by business and real estate interests, destroyed 1,600 African American neighborhoods in cities across the United States. But urban renewal didn’t just disrupt the black community. The anger it caused led to riots that sent whites fleeing for the suburbs, stripping them of their own sense of place. And it left big gashes in the centers of U.S. cities that are only now slowly being repaired. Focusing on three very different urban settings—the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the Central Ward in Newark, and the small Virginia city of Roanoke—Dr. Fullilove argues powerfully that the twenty-first century will be one of displacement and of continual demolition and reconstruction. Acknowledging the damage caused by root shock is crucial to coping with its human toll and building a road to recovery. Astonishing in its revelations, unsparing in its conclusions, Root Shock should be read by anyone who cares about the quality of life in American cities—and the dignity of those who reside there. From the Hardcover edition.

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One World/Ballantine

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0307544389

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9780307544384

The House of Joshua

Meditations on Family and Place

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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The House of Joshua

Meditations on Family and Place

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The author uses nine family stories to illustrate the psychological importance of place.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803269064

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Urban Alchemy

Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Urban Alchemy

Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

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Main Street

How a City's Heart Connects Us All

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How a City's Heart Connects Us All

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Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist, exposes the devastating outcome of decades of urban renewal projects to our nation’s marginalized communities. Examining the traumatic stress of “root shock” in three African American communities and similar widespread damage in other cities, she makes an impassioned and powerful argument against the continued invasive and unjust development practices of displacing poor neighborhoods.

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NYU Press

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1613320205

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The House of Joshua

Meditations on Family and Place

By: Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Meditations on Family and Place

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The author uses nine family stories to illustrate the psychological importance of place.

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U of Nebraska Press

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From Enforcers to Guardians

A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence

By: Hannah L. F. Cooper,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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From Enforcers to Guardians

A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence

By: Hannah L. F. Cooper,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

A public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence. Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights. Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L. F. Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, and nonfatal physical violence as well. Arguing that excessive police violence has been deliberately used to marginalize working-class and minority communities, Cooper and Fullilove describe what we know about the history, distribution, and health impacts of police violence, from slave patrols in colonial times to war on drugs policing in the present-day United States. Finally, the book surveys efforts, including Barack Obama's 2015 creation of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, to eliminate police violence, and proposes a multisystem, multilevel strategy to end marginality and police violence and to achieve guardian policing. Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes and distributions of excessive police violence—and to develop interventions to end it—From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, and taught about through a public health lens.

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JHU Press

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1421436450

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Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States

By: Rodrick Wallace,Mindy T. Fullilove

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Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States

By: Rodrick Wallace,Mindy T. Fullilove

An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness. This latest book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective to its predecessor and generalizes the results presented in that earlier book. It applies a multiple-workspace version of Dr. Wallace’s earlier consciousness model to large-scale institutional cognition.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387767657

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9780387767659

Homeboy Came to Orange

A Story of People's Power

By: Ernest Thompson,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Homeboy Came to Orange

A Story of People's Power

By: Ernest Thompson,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place. Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people’s coalitions can make to the struggle for equality and freedom. Thompson cut his teeth organizing one of the great industrial unions, the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, and brought his organizing skills and commitment to coalition building to Orange, New Jersey. He built a strong organization and skillfully led fights for school desegregation, black political representation, and strong government in a city he initially thought of as a “dirty Jim Crow town going nowhere.” Thompson came to love the City of Orange and its caring citizens, seeing in its struggles a microcosm of America. This story of people’s power is meant for all who struggle for human rights, economic opportunity, decent housing, effective education, and a chance for children to have a better life. Ernest Thompson (1906-1971) grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on a farm that had been given to his family at the end of the Civil War. The family was very poor and oppressed by racist practices. Thompson was determined to get away and to obtain power. He migrated to Jersey City, where he became part of the union organizing movement that built the Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). He became the first African American to hold a fulltime organizing position with his union, the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). He eventually headed UE’s innovative Fair Employment Practices program and fought for equal rights and pay for women and minority workers. Thompson also helped build the National Negro Labor Council, 1951-1956, and served as its director of organizing. In 1956, under the onslaught of the McCarthy era, UE was split in two, and Thompson lost his job. His wife, Margaret Thompson, brought the local school segregation to his attention. Ernie “Home” Thompson organized to desegregate the regional schools, building strong coalitions and political power for the black community that ultimately served all the people of Orange.

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New Village Press

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1613320345

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9781613320341

From Enforcers to Guardians

A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence

By: Hannah L. F. Cooper,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421436442

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Homeboy Came to Orange

A Story of People's Power

By: Ernest Thompson,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Homeboy Came to Orange

A Story of People's Power

By: Ernest Thompson,Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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1613320329

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Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States

By: Rodrick Wallace,Mindy T. Fullilove

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Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States

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Main Street

Main Street

Root Shock

Root Shock

Urban Alchemy

Urban Alchemy

Root Shock

Root Shock

The House of Joshua

The House of Joshua

Urban Alchemy

Urban Alchemy

Main Street

Main Street

Root Shock

Root Shock

The House of Joshua

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From Enforcers to Guardians

From Enforcers to Guardians

Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

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Homeboy Came to Orange

Homeboy Came to Orange

From Enforcers to Guardians

From Enforcers to Guardians

Homeboy Came to Orange

Homeboy Came to Orange

Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

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