Racial diversity in the suburbs: how race-neutral responses to demographic change perpetuate inequity in suburban school districts

Suburbs across the US are experiencing dramatic demographic shifts, yet there is little research available on how suburban school districts are dealing with these changes. In this article, we examine the discourses surrounding race and demographic change in three suburban school districts that have been undergoing rapid demographic changes and which contain demographically distinct areas within their district boundaries. Utilizing a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, we analyze how the policy context (federal and state) frames actors’ discourses and understandings of race, paying particular attention to the political and institutional factors affecting school policy. We illustrate how the discourse, in turn, is related to the actions (or inactions) taken by district and school leaders to respond to demographic change. We conclude the article by discussing policy implications and potential challenges districts may face in the future if efforts to purposively address racial changes continue to be avoided.     

左权县发展生态庄园经济的实践与思考

在推进城镇化的过程中,左权县依托移民搬迁后遗留下来的旧村旧址、耕地、＂四荒＂等资源,以多元化方式筹集社会资金,以租赁、购买土地使用权等形式集中一定规模的土地,以市场为导向,以科技为支撑,以经济效益为中心,以建设生态文明为目标,创造性地实施了生态庄园经济开发,取得了明显的经济效益、社会效益和生态效益,被上级领导和专家学者誉为山区县份发展现代农业、推进城乡一体化的创新之举。目前已在山西省59个山区县推广。     

1961年京郊调查对纠正“大跃进”“左”倾错误的贡献

1961年北京市委组织的京郊调查纠正了北京“大跃进”“左”倾错误,解决了农村生产中实际存在的一系列突出问题。同时给一批在“大跃进”、人民公社化运动中因坚持真理而受到处分的干部平反,促进了思想的解放。     

城郊乡村治理问题研究——以重庆市东风村为例

中国的农村有许多种分类,而城郊农村属于其中的一种,具有特殊性。重庆市东风村地处城市边缘,属于典型的城郊农村。通过实地调研发现,该村庄在乡村治理过程中存在着一些问题,主要集中在治理主体和经济建设方面。这些问题的存在和完善思路对中国城郊乡村问题研究将具有启发意义。为响应新农村建设的号召,可以从选拔优秀人才,加快经济文化建设和提高村民素质方面对城郊乡村治理进行完善。     

Suburban ethnicities: Home as the site of interethnic conviviality and racism

This article explores the ways in which the white working-class residents of a suburban English town reflect on their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors. Its focus is on how everyday constructions of home become sites for the intermingling of discourses of intercultural conviviality and racism. My contention is that the idea of home has not yet been given the detailed critical attention that it deserves in the sociological literature on everyday manifestations of multiculturalism, conviviality, and racism. My supposition is that a special focus on the idea of home as the site of conviviality offers a productive avenue to analyze how intercultural relationships are formed and how the norms of neighborliness are thought to break down, opening a space for commonplace racialized and racist stereotypes to take hold. The idea of home is central to the rhythm and landscape of the English suburbs. It conjures up the idea of a uniform and aspirational white space. Drawing on this imaginary of home, I shall trace how “white working class” “English,” “Scottish,” and “Anglo-Italian” residents’ everyday constructions of home become embroiled with their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors.     

城郊景区旅游者消费行为的比较分析——以天津、上海、北京为例

城市生活节奏的加快、城郊景区的规划开发以及休假制度的调整使得越来越多的城市居民选择到距离城市较近的郊县景区旅游,本文以天津、上海和北京的城市居民为例,比较分析三地民在在进行城郊旅游时在旅游同伴、旅游地类型、旅游时间及消费支出等消费行为上差异,并总结出城郊旅游者消费行为的总体特征。     

城郊社区自治能力对社区公共服务水平的影响研究

随着城市化进程的不断扩展,大量城郊农民开始纳入到城市化进程,然而,受农村原有条件的限制,城郊社区的公共服务水平有待提高。本次调研从以社区自治能力的视角分析了改善城郊公共服务水平的可能性的结果表明,提高社区的自治能力,可以增加社区自治的公共服务的能力和提供公共产品的意愿,进而在较大程度上改善城郊社区的公共服务水平。     

贫困山区统筹城乡发展“左权模式”之一——左权县“1城34村”特色城镇化路径探析

城镇化是实现全面建设小康社会目标的重要组成部分,也是从根本上解决＂三农＂问题的关键所在。左权县结合县域实际,探索实践了一条以＂1城34村＂为目标的特色城镇化发展之路。坚持规划先行,通过加快县城和中心村建设、大力度移民搬迁、开发生态庄园经济、加大劳务输出力度、统筹城乡区划和教育资源配置等措施,推进城镇化和城乡一体化进程,为贫困山区破解＂三农＂难题、建设社会主义新农村提供了借鉴和启迪。     

城市化进程中郊区农村生态环境问题及其治理——以绵阳市M村为例

在城市化浪潮驱动下，各方为了追求利益最大化，对郊区农村生态环境的污染与破坏严重.文章通过对四川绵阳市城郊M村在城市化过程中生态环境污染状况的走访调查，分析形成原因并提出一些对策.     

The suburban paradox of conviviality and racism in postcolonial Britain

Taking my cue from work on relations of interethnic conviviality in super-diverse cities across the globe, this paper examines the ways in which conviviality co-exists with racism as found in a suburban British town. My argument is that ethnographic attention to the proximity of interethnic relations of conviviality to racism is necessary to guard against overly celebratory accounts of conviviality that downplay everyday manifestations of racism. By situating my study of conviviality in a suburban town, my account begins to unpack the characteristics of convivial relations formed in suburban neighbourhoods as opposed to super-diverse cities often studied by ethnographers in this area of inquiry. I examine manifestations of interethnic relations between British Asian Muslims and white British residents of this town. In contrast to the mainstream images that depict British Asian Muslims as a potential threat to neighbourhood stability and national security, some white and British Asian Muslim residents formed neighbourly relationships of trust, care and mutual recognition with each other across ethnic, racial, religious, gender, class and generational differences. Yet, my analysis of these convivial relations reveals some paradoxical ways in which individuals’ experiences of interethnic relations co-exist with their xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic attitudes.