Stephen Klineberg: Houston and the American future

For the past 30 years, Stephen Klineberg, sociology professor at Rice has been documenting the challenges and illuminating the remarkable transformation of Houston from an Anglo-dominated oil-boom Southern town into a multiethnic global city. Just two months after the first survey was completed, Houston's 80-year oil boom suddenly collapsed. The region recovered from the deep and prolonged recession of the mid-1980s to find itself squarely in the midst of a restructured economy and a demographic revolution. These are the same trends that are rapidly refashioning the social and political landscape across all of urban America. This video was produced by Dave Thompson, Randy Twaddle, John Carrithers at tTweak.com

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