The urban racial state
Subtitle: managing race relations in American cities
By: Noel A. Cazenave
Series: Perspectives on a multiracial America series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781442207752; 9781442207776
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Government policy; Case studies; Urban policy; Political aspects; Metropolitan government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments introduction : the urban racial state : an overview; title: Understanding the urban racial state; title: Programming race relations through community action; title: The civil rights movement, the war on poverty, and conflict over the use of community action to support African American insurgency; title: Maximum feasible participation meets Black power and the white backlash : the struggle over community action in Syracuse; title: Black rebellion, white repression, and the transformation of community progress, inc. and urban politics in New Haven; title: Recent examples of the urban racial state; title: Conclusion : summaries of findings, lessons learned for understanding today's urban racial state, and what we still need to know.