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Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities Hardcover – July 4, 2023
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“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.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPost Hill Press
- Publication dateJuly 4, 2023
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.1 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-101637586469
- ISBN-13978-1637586464
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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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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.
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.
The book should be read by anyone who is open to an honest explanation of America’s flight to the suburbs.








