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Filling the void, politicians vacillate between scapegoating (blaming immigrants and big government) and Band-Aids (creating regulations that address symptoms rather than root causes).
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
Predatory realtors made a nice scapegoat, but the reasons for white migration to the suburbs were more complex. As unseemly as their tactics may have been, the agents were responding to a real need. Black homebuyers desperately sought decent housing, and they had little access to the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
We call the eighteenth century ‘the Enlightenment’, even though, while it may have expanded ‘the rights of man’, it ‘narrowed the rights of women, who were denied control of their property and earnings and barred from higher education and professional training’.
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
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