Rethinking bridging: Risk and trust in multiracial community organizing

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 483-506

  Rusch, Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridging; Community organizing; Detroit; Social capital

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DETROIT; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75749084776     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087409351946     Document Type: Article

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