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"Urban thunder" tears black communities asunder; displacement and development whittle away at the collective psyche.

Publication: Black Issues Book Review
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 995 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: "Urban thunder" tears black communities asunder; displacement and development whittle away at the collective psyche.(Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It)(Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Street)(American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland)(Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration An Oral History)(L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles From the Great Depression to the Present)(No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America's Cities)(The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community)(To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906)(Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It

by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D. One World/Ballantine Books, June 2004 $25.95, ISBN 0-345-45422-7

We've witnessed the 3-D disintegration of many of America's once dynamic and thriving African American neighborhoods and communities, victims of destruction, demolition and displacement for more than five decades. In Root Shock, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., uses her incisive skills as a psychiatrist to provide an astute socially constructed analysis of three urban settings-the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Central Ward in Newark, New Jersey; and neighborhoods of Roanoke, Virginia, nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

When a neighborhood is destroyed, its inhabitants suffer "root shock": a traumatic stress reaction related to the destruction of one's emotional ecosystem, according to Fullilove, a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University.

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