By M. Paloma Pavel, Carl Anthony
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe leading edge concepts that advertise fit neighborhoods, reasonable housing, and available transportation all through America's towns and suburbs.
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This can lead to discouragement and disengagement even among those who seek change. From Bootstrap Community Development to Regional Equity 13 Conservation, Poverty, and Sustainability In Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton describes a degraded South African landscape that can no longer sustain the people who depend on it: The great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh . . Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man.
The movement for regional equity draws from many of these traditions of regionalism, while grafting them on to a root that is outside of conventional representations of regional development, city building, and environmental history—the spatial dimensions of a quest for social and racial justice. Such representations have, until recently, rarely focused on people of color as agents or influences in the shaping of space in the United States. Yet race has impacted the shaping of cities, suburbs, and rural areas of North America since colonial times (Trotter, Lewis, Hunter 2004; Schein 2006).
The face-to-face, race-to-race, and placeto-place dialogues that typify many regional collaborations offer hope for a new approach in marked contrast to the corrosive partisan struggles that too frequently characterize national politics. In this light, every word in the term regional equity movement is important: the region is the level for action, equity is the goal, and a movement is the way to make change. Taking movement building seriously means that we need to clarify our underlying values and visions.