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Conjuring Crisis : Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City.
How have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes "reformed" politics i...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | How have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes "reformed" politics in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights era. In the 1990s at Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, North Carolina, the city's dominant political coalition of white civic and business leaders had lost control of the city council. Amid accusations of racism in the police department, two white council m. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813549798 0813549795 1283383136 9781283383134 9786613383136 6613383139 |