ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editors thank, most of all, the many contributors for their hard work on the articles that compose this collection. We also thank Michael McGandy at Cornell University Press for taking a risk on a provocative approach to a familiar topic, and for commissioning helpful anonymous reviews of the manuscript. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the New York Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provided financial support that allowed this project to be completed. Sections of chapter 9 originally appeared in Fritz Umbach, The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing. © 2010 by Fritz Umbach. Reprinted by permission of Rutgers University Press. Sections of chapter 10 originally appeared in Rhonda Y. Williams, The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality. © 2005 by Rhonda Y. Williams. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Portions of chapter 11 originally appeared in Lisa Levenstein, A Movement without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia. © 2009 Reprinted by permission of University of North Carolina Press.