Benjamin Herold
Author at Freelance
Author, DISILLUSIONED: FIVE FAMILIES AND THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICA'S SUBURBS. Alum @EducationWeek @WHYY @TempleUniv. #TTP
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May 20, 2024 |
americanaffairsjournal.org | Joel Kotkin |Tom Schaller |Paul Waldman |Benjamin Herold
REVIEW ESSAYWhite Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracyby Tom Schaller and Paul WaldmanRandom House, 2024, 320 pagesDisillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbsby Benjamin HeroldPenguin, 2024, 496 pagesSixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American Cityby Richard E.
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Jan 29, 2024 |
original.newsbreak.com | Benjamin Herold
By 2017, however, new houses starting in the mid-$200,000s were everywhere, and white students were now outnumbered inside Jones Middle. There were a handful of other Black kids in Corey Robinson’s seventh-grade social studies class, including a friend whom Corey considered his ride or die. The following is an adapted excerpt from DISILLUSIONED: FIVE FAMILIES AND THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICA’S SUBURBS, published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
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Jan 27, 2024 |
texarkanagazette.com | Benjamin Herold |Vikas Turakhia
In "Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs," education reporter Benjamin Herold lucidly explains how suburbia currently hosts "a collision of competing dreams, each of which seems to be crumbling."Some politicians, with thinly veiled racism, trumpet notions of suburbs-in-despair -- equating demographic changes, which make white families a minority, with collapse. Herold silences that nonsense immediately.
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Jan 24, 2024 |
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Benjamin Herold
Nearly 25 years ago, I reported on the changing demographics of Cicero, a working-class suburb just west of Chicago. For years, the town, which was made up mostly of Italian and Eastern European American families, worked hard at keeping Black people from settling there. In 1951, when a Black family moved in, a mob entered their apartment, tore it up, and pushed a piano out a window. Police watched and did nothing. The governor had to call out the National Guard.
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Jan 24, 2024 |
auburnpub.com | Benjamin Herold |Vikas Turakhia
In "Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs," education reporter Benjamin Herold lucidly explains how suburbia currently hosts "a collision of competing dreams, each of which seems to be crumbling."Some politicians, with thinly veiled racism, trumpet notions of suburbs-in-despair — equating demographic changes, which make white families a minority, with collapse. Herold silences that nonsense immediately.
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An absolute honor to discuss #DISILLUSIONED & America's faltering suburban dreams w/ such a powerhouse panel of @UMich @fordschool @UMSociology scholars. Huge thanks to Alex Murphy, Karyn Lacy, @motorresx, Conan Smith of @MichEnvCouncil & the UM Center for Racial Justice 💙💛 https://t.co/2b9SeHXdcJ
An absolute honor to discuss #DISILLUSIONED & America's faltering suburban dreams w/ such a powerhouse panel of @UMich @fordschool @UMSociology scholars. Huge thanks to Alex Murphy, Karyn Lacy, @motorresx, Conan Smith of @MichEnvCouncil & the UM Center for Racial Justice 💙💛 https://t.co/vCOJX8hRK7
