Format:
1 online resource (345 pages)
ISBN:
9781781901854
Series Statement:
Research in Race and Ethnic Relations Ser v.18
Content:
With case studies from across the country, in medium-sized and large cities, and mayors of various backgrounds, this volume provides an account of how different minority mayors have handled minority representation in historically majority Caucasian cities and what lessons academics and politicians can learn from them.
Content:
FRONT COVER -- 21ST CENTURY URBAN RACE POLITICS: REPRESENTING MINORITIES AS UNIVERSAL INTERESTS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- DERACIALIZATION RECONSIDERED: THEORIZING TARGETED UNIVERSALISTIC URBAN POLITICS -- CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR MINORITY MAYORAL POLITICS -- THE RISE OF DERACIALIZATION -- DERACIALIZATION RECONSIDERED -- POLLING DATA -- THE MAYORS -- CONCLUSION: ''RECONSIDERED'' EXPLAINED -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- ABOUT THE CHAPTERS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1 POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN PROVIDENCE: THE ELECTION OF MAYOR ANGEL TAVERAS -- PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND -- CITY POLITICS IN PROVIDENCE -- ANGEL TAVERAS AND THE 2010 MAYORAL ELECTION -- ANGEL TAVERAS' ELECTORAL COALITION -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 CONSTRUCTING A MODERATE MULTIRACIAL COALITION IN ''AMERICA'S MOST DIVERSE CITY'': KEVIN JOHNSON AND COALITION POLITICS IN SACRAMENTO -- POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN SACRAMENTO -- THE JOSHUA GENERATION AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS -- ESTABLISHING A MODERATE MULTIRACIAL ELECTORAL COALITION -- CONSTRUCTING A MODERATE MULTIRACIAL COALITION IN SACRAMENTO -- REELECTION AND MAINTAINING THE MULTIRACIAL COALITION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 BEYOND BOOKER: ASSESSING THE PROSPECTS OF BLACK AND LATINO MAYORAL CONTENDERS IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY -- GENERATIONAL TRANSITION AND THE RISE OF MULTIRACIAL POLITICS IN NEWARK -- HYPOTHESES, DATA, AND METHODS -- ANALYSIS -- ANALYSIS/CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 ''SHOWING HIS COLOR'': MARK MALLORY'S RACIAL DISTINCTIVENESS AS SEEN THROUGH MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS -- WHY CINCINNATI? -- WHY MAYOR MARK MALLORY? -- RESEARCH DESIGN STRATEGY: DETERMINING THE RACIAL DISTINCTIVENESS OF MAYOR MALLORY -- HYPOTHESES -- FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781901847
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781781901847
Language:
English
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