Double trouble
Subtitle: Black Mayors, black communities, and the call for a deep democracy
By: by J. Phillip Thompson III.
Series: Transgressing boundaries
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780195177336
Subjects: Dinkins, David N; African Americans -- Politics and government; African American mayors; Municipal government -- United States; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; Political participation -- United States; Power (Social sciences) -- United States; Social change -- United States; Democracy -- United States; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: "J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. This unique work opens a window on the oft-shuttered inner dynamics of black politics. In his highly original treatment of the last thirty years in post-civil rights progressive social change, Thompson offers a powerful argument that the best way to broaden democracy in to practice it internally."--Jacket.