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The Urban Racial State : Managing Race Relations in American Cities /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cazenave, Noel A., 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2011]
Series:Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations > Political aspects > Case studies.
United States > Race relations > Government policy > Case studies.
Urban policy > United States > Case studies.
Metropolitan government > United States > Case studies.
New Haven (Conn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
New Haven (Conn.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Syracuse (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Syracuse (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The urban racial state : an overview
  • Understanding the urban racial state
  • Programming race relations through community action
  • The civil rights movement, the war on poverty, and conflict over the use of community action to support African American insurgency
  • Maximum feasible participation meets Black power and the white backlash : the struggle over community action in Syracuse
  • Black rebellion, white repression, and the transformation of community progress, inc. and urban politics in New Haven
  • Recent examples of the urban racial state
  • Conclusion : summaries of findings, lessons learned for understanding today's urban racial state, and what we still need to know.