The urban racial state : managing race relations in American cities / Noel A. Cazenave.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that bridges urban theory, racism theory, and state theory by explaining the workings of the political structure whose urban governments enforce the regulation of race relations. In The Urban Racial State, Cazenave incorporates extensive archival and oral history case study data to support the placement of racism analysis at the center of the formulation of urban theory and the study of urban politics.

The urban racial state : an overview -- Understanding the urban racial state -- Programming race relations through community action -- The civil rights movement, the war on poverty, and conflict over the use of community action to support African American insurgency -- Maximum feasible participation meets Black power and the white backlash : the struggle over community action in Syracuse -- Black rebellion, white repression, and the transformation of community progress, inc. and urban politics in New Haven -- Recent examples of the urban racial state -- Conclusion : summaries of findings, lessons learned for understanding today's urban racial state, and what we still need to know.

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