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Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities Hardcover – July 4, 2023

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Long accused of racism and “white flight,” the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods—the author included—finally get the chance to tell their side of the story.

“A startlingly honest and poignant look at ‘white flight’ from the white perspective. A necessary and overdue corrective.” —Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center

I asked one lifelong friend, a rare Democrat among the displaced, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African-American families moved in. He searched a minute for the right set of words, and then simply said, “It became untenable.” When I asked what he meant by “untenable,” he answered, “When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that’s untenable. When your home gets broken into for the second time, that’s untenable.” In researching this project, I found myself repeatedly stunned by the failure of self-described experts on white flight to ask those accused of fleeing why it was they fled. The reason the experts didn’t ask, I discovered, is that they were afraid of what they might learn.

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July 4, 2023
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5.5 x 1.1 x 8.25 inches
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1637586469
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978-1637586464
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Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Jack Cashill graduated from Regis High School and Siena College and received his Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue University. Relevant to this project, Cashill worked for the Newark Housing Authority and the Housing Authority of Kansas City. He also taught urban studies through the Fulbright program at the University of Nancy in France. Untenable is Cashill’s fifteenth published work of nonfiction.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post Hill Press (July 4, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1637586469
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1637586464
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.25 inches

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Jan

A meaningful read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024

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The author carefully describes the exodus of people from cities which has often been mis-characterized as bigotry or racism. Carefully and thoughtfully written book.

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Mr. McCarthy

An absorbing observational account

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023

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This book explores the rarely addressed white ethnic urban perspective on mid century American urban decay. it is well worth your time. The author shares his own first hand observations along with accounts and perspectives on that relatives, friends, neighbors, classmates and mother contemporaries, many with whom he came of age.

I enjoyed the expression of viewpoints the author provided, free of being straight jacket-ed into the dominant sociopolitical narrative today, i.e. all of the white people fled urban neighborhoods because because of racism. His honesty regarding the naivety of the well intended and the greed and cynicism of the malintended, in housing policy and community relations, was refreshing.

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Thomas M. Magee

Personal angle to an old story

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023

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First, I gave this book 4 stars just for courage. Jack Cashill shows courage to address this problem of city decay. Few others in our nation right now seem to care about the decay overtaking our nation. We have seen quite a lot of it over the past 3 years but it has been a problem for the past 50 years.

This book is a local story of the decline of the cities in America. The local angle is the author's personal stories about his hometown, Newark NJ. On occasion, he introduces stories about the national aspect or the modern side of the story. If you are from Newark for sure you will love this book. If you are not from Newark the book might not have the impact you seek. The book starts explaining white flight as coming from the increase in crime when the cities become more integrated. As his story develops you see this is a local example of the danger of fatherless families as documented in the 1967 Moynihan report about the danger of fatherless families. He also shows how the Democrats use existing circumstances in these cities to further their political goals.

Overall, there is nothing new here. Newark doesn't have exactly a stellar reputation today. There are scores of studies and examples of how daily we pay the consequences for fatherless kids. This book gives you a local angle that might make the problem seem more real than just a book about statistics of old social problems.

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Carl Appel

Untenable

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023

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A cool read if you’re interested in the topic.

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Dana T. Trudeau

Terrific.

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023

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Jack is an American treasure. Unlike the phony press The fake news he tells it straight as it happened , and not like you want to think it happened You can feel the cracks in the slate as he walked home from school. You can sense the fear when it just wasn’t just another minority group fought for the American dream This was vengeance by race hustling black hustlers who did not give a crap about civil rights. Only themselves.

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Eye opener

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023

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The word not often mentioned in connection with white flight to the suburbs is crime. The author uses his hometown of Newark as the detailed example. Story after specific story describe how the riots occurred and chaos drove people away who wanted to stay in a desirable city that they loved.Neighborhoods gradually became occupied by more and more families without married heads of households who held jobs. Out of control youths and racial discrimination took over. The rest is sorry history. Jack Cashill has written a compelling and and very interesting book ! Strongly recommended !

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rmontgomery@go-onpoint.com

An honest explanation of America’s flight to the suburbs.

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023

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Cashill’s well researched book tells the stories of residents who, at great personal cost, fled Newark in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It also tells the stories of the political leaders, grifters, and agitators who, in pursuing their own ends, reduced the city of Newark to a state in which residents legitimately feared for their lives.

The book should be read by anyone who is open to an honest explanation of America’s flight to the suburbs.

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Superb book deserves wide dissemination

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2023

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This book is part memoir and part historical analysis of "white flight" from America's cities utilizing the example of Newark. It shows how many shibboleths in this area are accepted and regarded as veridical with scant or no evidence to support them. I fear that much of the legacy press will regard it as too "subversive" to review with an open mind. I recommend this book to all with an interest in modern American history. See what you take away from it.

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