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Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland Hardcover - 2003
by Sonya Salamon
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Life in a small midwestern town does not evoke, in an outsider, an image of arcadian perfection.
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Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America.
Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities. 2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological AssociationDetails
- Title Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland
- Author Sonya Salamon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Unabridged
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
- Date January 15, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226734125 / 0226734129
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.52 x 6.28 x 0.8 in (24.18 x 15.95 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Heartland
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Library of Congress subjects Middle West - Rural conditions, Urban-rural migration - Middle West
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002067527
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.720
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