Chapter 0: Welcome to American Suburb
Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those pri...
American Suburb
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Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them? KQED’s Devin Katayama and Sandhya Dirks explore that question, taking us into the ordinary spaces of suburban life to find extraordinary stories about race, poverty and belonging.
Chapter 1: The Tipping Point
A police chief in Antioch leads a team to investigate citizen complaints. But some say the complaints mostly target newer black residents. Across town...
Chapter 2: Friday Night Lights
With the country’s No. 1 high school football recruit - Najee Harris - Principal Louie Rocha and the Antioch High School football team haven’t had it ...
Chapter 3: How to Survive an Exodus
When African-Americans priced out of Bay Area cities like San Francisco, Fremont and Oakland move to suburban Antioch looking for better schools, more...
Chapter 4: Make Great America Again
A small group of Muslim families were meeting out of garages before they purchased an old dentist office for their new mosque. After the Islamic Cente...
Chapter 5: How to Change Your Mind
Iris Archuleta is the daughter of a Black Panther who grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. She and her husband were part of the first wave of up...
Chapter 6: Reasonable Fear
More African Americans are now living in suburbs than anywhere else. And some of the country’s most recent controversial police shootings of unarmed b...
Chapter 7: The Field
Antioch residents are finding it hard to ignore the increasing number of destitute people living on the streets. Last year, the number of people livin...
Chapter 8: Rabbit Hole
It can be hard to get back on your feet when you’re starting from scratch — even when opportunity falls in your lap. We meet Kevin Kunze, who was livi...
Chapter 9: We Too Sing Antioch
A school counselor and local pastor arranges a middle school graduation celebration for African American students, but protests against the ceremony l...