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Black Power in the Suburbs
The Myth or Reality of African American Suburban Political Incorporation
Inbunden, 2002
1071 kr
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The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.The country's largest concentration of African American suburban affluence represents a unique laboratory to study the internal factors associated with African American political ascendancy and the convergence of race …
Ideal Citizens
The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Häftad, 1993
404 kr
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What really became of the student activists who helped define the civil rights era—and what does their story tell us about race, protests, and political commitment in America?1994 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In Ideal Citizens, James J. Fendrich offers a bracing corrective to the familiar, …
Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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Convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution.This is the first book to assess in a systematic and theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the post-civil rights era. It convincingly …
We Have No Leaders
African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Häftad, 1996
404 kr
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This comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost wholly incorporated into mainstream institutions.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksThis is the first comprehensive study of African …
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation
Häftad, 1997
448 kr
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Tells the story (in the participants' own words) of how a determined southern filibuster was turned back in the U. S. Senate and the 1964 Civil Rights Act made into law.This book details, in a series of first-person accounts, how Hubert Humphrey and other dedicated civil rights supporters fashioned …
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora
The New Urban Challenge
Häftad, 1997
504 kr
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Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.This volume draws attention to …
Shifting Wind
The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown
Häftad, 1998
487 kr
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Examines the significant role played by the U.S. Supreme Court in shaping race relations and affecting civil rights in the period between the end of the Civil War and the 1954 Brown decision.The Supreme Court played a decisive, and not always positive role in molding the relationship between race …
African American Leadership
Av Ronald W. Walters, Robert C. Smith
Häftad, 1999
477 kr
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Written by two of the nation's preeminent scholars on the topic, this book provides a panoramic overview of black leadership in the United States.CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic TitleWritten by two preeminent scholars of the subject, this book provides a panoramic view of the theory, research, and …
Black Atlantic Politics
Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool
Häftad, 2000
618 kr
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Groundbreaking research on Black political participation and urban race relations on both sides of the Atlantic.Winner of the 2000 Best Book on Comparative Racial and Ethnic Politics Presented by the American Political Science Association, Section of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics This first …
Desegregating the City
Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality
Inbunden, 2005
1267 kr
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Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries.Desegregating the City takes a global, multidisciplinary look at segregation and the strengths and weaknesses of different antisegregation strategies in the United States and other developed countries. …
Devolution and Black State Legislators
Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-first Century
Av Tyson King-Meadows, Thomas F. Schaller
Inbunden, 2006
1515 kr
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Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.Devolution and Black State Legislators examines whether black state legislators can produce qualitative gains in the substantive representation of black interests. Once a battle cry by southern conservatives, "new federalism" has …
Devolution and Black State Legislators
Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-first Century
Av Tyson King-Meadows, Thomas F. Schaller
Häftad, 2007
618 kr
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Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.Devolution and Black State Legislators examines whether black state legislators can produce qualitative gains in the substantive representation of black interests. Once a battle cry by southern conservatives, "new federalism" has …
Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Inbunden, 2006
1286 kr
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Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered …
Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Häftad, 2006
463 kr
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Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered …
Invisible Politics
Black Political Behavior
Inbunden, 1985
1458 kr
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With a view that behavioralism has distorted perceptions of black political activity, Hanes Walton, Jr., here reformulates the assumptions of behavioralism to arrive at a more realistic understanding of the political actions of black Americans. Considering the cultural and historical events that …
Out of the Crucible
Black Steel Workers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980
Häftad, 1986
502 kr
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This book examines in depth the century-long struggle of Black laborers in the iron and steel industry of western Pennsylvania. In the process it shows how the fate of these Black workers mirrors the contemporary predicament of the Black working class and the development of a chronically unemployed …
Black Political Mobilization, Leadership, Power and Mass Behavior
Häftad, 1987
618 kr
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Black Political Mobilization accounts for the political success of black Americans in the South. Minion Morrison returns to Mississippi, the center of much of the political activism of the 1960s, to analyze the remarkable improvement in black electoral participation in the years following passage …
When the Marching Stopped
The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies
Häftad, 1988
463 kr
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This book takes the "next step" in the study of the civil rights movement in the United States. To date, the vast majority of books on the civil rights movement have analyzed either the origins and philosophies, or the strategies and tactics of the movement. When the Marching Stopped is the first …
John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance
Häftad, 2014
477 kr
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Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.Political analysts and journalists often draw analogies between John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic Irish president, and Barack Obama, the first African American president. Their …
Repositioning Race
Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age
Av Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria F. Robinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
463 kr
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Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.In Repositioning Race, leading African American sociologists assess the current state of race theory, racial discrimination, and research on race in order to chart a path toward a more engaged public …
Black Haze
Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities
Inbunden, 2015
1223 kr
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Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.Are black men naturally violent? Do they define manhood in the same way as their counterparts across lines of race? Are black Greek-letter fraternities among the most dangerous student organizations on American …
Spike Lee Brand
A Study of Documentary Filmmaking
Häftad, 2016
241 kr
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A rare look at Spike Lee's creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.In this groundbreaking book, Delphine Letort sheds light on a neglected part of Spike Lee's filmmaking by offering a rare look at his creative engagement with the genre of documentary filmmaking. Ranging from history to …
Spike Lee Brand
A Study of Documentary Filmmaking
Inbunden, 2015
1058 kr
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A rare look at Spike Lee's creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.In this groundbreaking book, Delphine Letort sheds light on a neglected part of Spike Lee's filmmaking by offering a rare look at his creative engagement with the genre of documentary filmmaking. Ranging from history to …
Race Still Matters
The Reality of African American Lives and the Myth of Postracial Society
Av Yuya Kiuchi
Inbunden, 2016
1595 kr
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Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin …
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Av Jas M. Sullivan, William E. Cross Jr.
Häftad, 2017
477 kr
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Presents research on how variations in African Americans' racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.Focusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first …
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Av Jas M. Sullivan, William E. Cross Jr.
Inbunden, 2016
1286 kr
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Presents research on how variations in African Americans' racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.Focusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first …
Caribbeanization of Black Politics
Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America
Häftad, 2019
597 kr
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Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.In The Caribbeanization of Black Politics, Sharon D. Wright Austin explores the impact of ethnic diversification of African American communities on the prospects for black political …
Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American …
Dimensions of Blackness
Racial Identity and Political Beliefs
Av Jas M. Sullivan, Jonathan Winburn m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
622 kr
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A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.While the dynamics of racial oppression limit the range of attitudes blacks may construct and hold, their basic humanity introduces additional attitudinal variance that is nearly boundless. Rather than claim …
Dimensions of Blackness
Racial Identity and Political Beliefs
Av Jas M. Sullivan, Jonathan Winburn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1296 kr
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A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.While the dynamics of racial oppression limit the range of attitudes blacks may construct and hold, their basic humanity introduces additional attitudinal variance that is nearly boundless. Rather than claim …
