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Noel A. Cazenave - The Urban Racial State. Managing Race Relations in American Cities.  - 9781442207752 - V9781442207752
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The Urban Racial State. Managing Race Relations in American Cities.

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Description for The Urban Racial State. Managing Race Relations in American Cities. Hardback. Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial America. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of the political structure whose chief function for cities and other urban governments is the regulation of race relations within their geopolitical boundaries. In The Urban Racial State, Cazenave incorporates extensive archival and oral history case study data to support the placement of racism analysis as the focal point of the formulation of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives on a Multiracial America
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442207752
SKU
V9781442207752
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About Noel A. Cazenave
Noel A. Cazenave is associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of the book Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs and co-author of Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor.

Reviews for The Urban Racial State. Managing Race Relations in American Cities.
In this pathbreaking study, Noel Cazenave introduces a revelatory concept—the urban racial state—which brings to light the pivotal role that the state plays in the production and reproduction of racial inequalities. Instead of devising policies to address such fundamental problems as ghettoization, poverty, and labor market discrimination, mayors and heads of governmental agencies see their function as one of managing ... Read more

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