Table of Contents

Detailed Contents ix

Ghetto, Banlieue, Favela, et caetera: Tools for Rethinking Urban Marginality 1

Prologue: An Old Problem in a New World? 13

1 The Return of the Repressed: Riots, ‘Race’ and Dualization in Three Advanced Societies 15

Part I From Communal Ghetto to Hyperghetto 41

2 The State and Fate of the Dark Ghetto at Century’s Close 43

3 The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in ‘Bronzeville’ 92

4 West Side Story: A High-Insecurity Ward in Chicago 119

Part II Black Belt, Red Belt 133

5 From Conflation to Comparison: How Banlieues and Ghetto Converge and Contrast 135

6 Stigma and Division: From the Core of Chicago to the Margins of Paris 163

7 Dangerous Places: Violence, Isolation and the State 199

Part III Looking Ahead: Urban Marginality in the Twenty-First Century 227

8 The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Specifications and Implications 229

9 Logics of Urban Polarization from Below 257

Postscript: Theory, History and Politics in Urban Analysis 280

Acknowledgements and Sources 288

References 291

Index 330

About the Author

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris.

Reviews

"This is a fantastic book that anyone interested in the historical trajectory of advanced capitalism and the marginality it breeds should read. The book's real strength is its fusion of political sociological theory, economic history and a rich, everyday ethnography ... Wacquant's political sociological method is the perfect complement to recent urban geographical scholarship that deconstructs the spatial political economy of 'neoliberal urbanism', opening up the impacts of these policies on the ground with surgical precision." Area "This book should be mandatory reading for scholars, graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in this subject ... this is an exciting book written by one of the most prominent urban sociologists today. It provides a useful concept for understanding urban poverty (i.e. advanced marginality), outlines a powerful argument for how advanced marginality varies in different countries and, most importantly, identifies the power of states to shape the structure of these places and the life-chances of their residents." Urban Studies "Leading Chicago sociology Loic Wacquant's comparative analysis of advanced marginality in the American ghetto and French banlieue is the best of a spate of works on urban poverty to be released recently." Sociology "A thoroughly researched manifesto for an urban sociology that empowers the new precarious labour force of the post-industrial city." Race and Class "[Wacquant] raises a series of valuable discussion points on methodology, scales of explanation, the value and challenges of comparative study, modes of writing, and the question of the author's positionality and its effects on the drama he is recounting - a rich harvest to garner from a single volume ... would make first-rate reading and discussion material for senior undergraduate and graduate seminars." Annals of the Association of American Geographers "Urban Outcasts is a majestic synthesis of research on urban marginality in advanced capitalist countries. It uncovers the common forces leading to a new kind of poverty on both sides of the Atlantic while forcefully demonstrating the distinctly different ways social exclusion operates in Europe and in America. This refreshingly new look at the nexus of race, class and space in the post-Fordist world is a major contribution to social theory and urban studies." Ivan Szelenyi, author of Cities After Socialism and Patterns of Exclusion "In this impressive book, Wacquant deploys his unparalleled knowledge of the black American ghetto and the French banlieue to tackle a series of foundational questions about inequality and poverty. He shows us the variable ways in which these two conditions get constituted in two strands of capitalism and how 'territorial stigmatization' affects both the strategies of the poor and the public policies aimed at their reserved zones. The result is a provocative analysis of polarization from below and of the lived realities of urban marginality." Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City and Territory, Authority, Rights