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A Neighborhood Divided

Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility
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When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighbourhood, residents may be expected to voice concerns. But, as the author of this text recounts, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic diversity and liberal attitudes, public reaction becomes less predictable and in many ways more important to comprehend. An ethnographer who spent two years talking with inhabitants of a progressive neighbourhood facing this prospect, Jane Balin demonstrates that the controversy divided residents in surprising ways. She discovered that those most strongly opposed to the facility lived furthest away, that families with young children were evenly represented in the two camps, and that African-Americans followed a Jewish community leader in opposing the home while dismissing their own minister's support of it. By viewing each side sympathetically and allowing participants to express their true feelings about AIDS, the author invites readers to recognize their own anxieties over this sensitive issue. The book stresses the importance of uncovering the ideologies and fears of middle-class Americans in order to understand the range of responses that AIDS has provoked in our society. Its ethnographic approach seeks to expand the parameters of NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) research, offering a picture of the multi-faceted anxieties that drive responses to AIDS at both the local and national levels.

Author Biography:

Jane Balin is a health care information systems consultant in Long Beach, California. A sociologist, she is coauthor, with Lani Guinier and Michelle Fine, of Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change.
Release date NZ
March 18th, 1999
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Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
192
Dimensions
152x229x21
ISBN-13
9780801436062
Product ID
12722721

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