Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Globalization, Challenge, and the Black Diaspora
Pt. 1	Africa
1	Reaction and Resistance: Confronting Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Devaluation in Dakar, Senegal	15
2	Meeting the Challenge in an African City: Nairobi's Informal Economy in the 1980s and 1990s	43
3	Where Do the Majority Live in Urban Tanzania: Why and How?	61
Pt. 2	Latin America
4	Post-Invasion Panama: Urban Crisis and Social Protests	85
5	Rap in Puerto Rico: Reflections from the Margins	109
6	Neoliberalism in Venezuela: From Urban Riots to Presidential Impeachment	129
7	An Unsavory Union: Poverty, Racism, and the Murders of Street Youth in Brazil	149
Pt. 3	The Caribbean
8	Urbanism, Transnationalism, and the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago	171
9	Power and Identity among the Urban Poor of Jamaica	199
10	Women, Urbanization, and Structural Adjustment in St. Vincent	227
Pt. 4	North America
11	The Political Economy of the Black Urban Future: A History	247
12	By All Means Necessary: Rapping and Resisting in Urban Black America	269
13	Crisis and Lifestyles of Inner-City Bloods: Youth Culture as a Response to the Urban Environment	289
14	The Distorted Images of African Canadians: Impact, Implications, and Responses	307
Pt. 5	Europe
15	Urban Outcasts: Stigma and Division in the Black American Ghetto and the French Urban Periphery	331
16	Racism, Black People, and the City in Britain	357
	Conclusion: Beyond the 21st Century	379
	About the Contributors	387
	Index	391