Conjuring Crisis : Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City

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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...

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Main Author: Baca, George
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban poor > Government policy.
Urban policy.
Racism.
Race relations > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Politique urbaine > Caroline du Nord > Fayetteville.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Politique gouvernementale > Caroline du Nord > Fayetteville.
Racisme > Caroline du Nord > Fayetteville.
Urban policy > North Carolina > Fayetteville.
Urban poor > Government policy > North Carolina > Fayetteville.
Racism > North Carolina > Fayetteville.
North Carolina > Fayetteville.
Fayetteville (N.C.) > Race relations > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages).
ISBN:9780813547527

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