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Author : Charles St. Clair Green
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City written by Charles St. Clair Green and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Nathan Haymes
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791423837
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Race, Culture, and the City written by Stephen Nathan Haymes and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a pedagogy of black urban struggle and solidarity.
Author : James Jennings
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814336612
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Black Empowerment written by James Jennings and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and explanations of Black political behavior today.
Author : Charles Green
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0585386269
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora written by Charles Green and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States to investigate the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization.
Author : Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816633364
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)
Download or read book New York, Chicago, Los Angeles written by Janet L. Abu-Lughod and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- for all their differences, they are quintessentially American cities. They are also among the handful of cities on the earth that can be called "global". Janet L. Abu-Lughod's book is the first to compare them in an ambitious in-depth study that takes into account each city's unique history, following their development from their earliest days to their current status as players on the global stage.
Author : Robert W. Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548583
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book All the Nations Under Heaven written by Robert W. Snyder and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, All the Nations Under Heaven has earned praise and a wide readership for its unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience in New York City up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival as a global metropolis with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities. All the Nations Under Heaven explores New York City’s history through the stories of people who moved there from countless places of origin and indelibly marked its hybrid popular culture, its contentious ethnic politics, and its relentlessly dynamic economy. From Dutch settlement to the extraordinary diversity of today’s immigrants, the book chronicles successive waves of Irish, German, Jewish, and Italian immigrants and African American and Puerto Rican migrants, showing how immigration changes immigrants and immigrants change the city. In a compelling narrative synthesis, All the Nations Under Heaven considers the ongoing tensions between inclusion and exclusion, the pursuit of justice and the reality of inequality, and the evolving significance of race and ethnicity. In an era when immigration, inequality, and globalization are bitterly debated, this revised edition is a timely portrait of New York City through the lenses of migration and immigration.
Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002760
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Harvard Guide to African-American History written by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Author : Martha Biondi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262077
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book To Stand and Fight written by Martha Biondi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Civil Rights Movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle for racial equality in the urban North began a full ten years before the rise of the movement in the South. This story is an essential first chapter, not only to the southern movement that followed, but to the riots that erupted in northern and western cities just as the Civil Rights Movement was achieving major victories. Biondi tells the story of African Americans who mobilized to make the war against fascism a launching pad for a postwar struggle against white supremacy at home. Rather than seeking integration in the abstract, Black New Yorkers demanded first-class citizenship—jobs for all, affordable housing, protection from police violence, access to higher education, and political representation. This powerful local push for economic and political equality met broad resistance, yet managed to win several landmark laws barring discrimination and segregation. To Stand and Fight demonstrates how Black New Yorkers launched the modern civil rights struggle and left a rich legacy.
Author : Andrés Torres
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566392808
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Between Melting Pot and Mosaic written by Andrés Torres and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author note: Andrés Torres is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Labor Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Author : James Jennings
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860915898
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Race, Politics, and Economic Development written by James Jennings and published by Verso. This book was released on 1992-12-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1992, the world witnessed a renewal in South-Central Los Angeles of the urban violence that had exploded there over a quarter of a century earlier. As in the Watts rebellion of 1965, the spark that ignited the firestorm was Black rage over police brutality. But in both eras the tinder was prepared by decades of social neglect and political disenfranchisement that have left the predominantly non-white urban poor trapped and virtually without hope. Race, Politics, and Economic Development examines the underlying causes of Black urban poverty and recommends means to escape the seemingly endless cycle of retributive violence that it spawns. The book brings together Black activists and scholars, including two former mayors of American cities, to analyze the theoretical and practical problems facing the Black community in the United States. The essays argue that political influence, power and wealth are major factors in determining social welfare policies; that both liberal and conservative policies are no longer effective in alleviating a growing human service crisis among Blacks; and that political mobilisation of the Black community is absolutely critical in resolving the problem of poverty in urban America. Drawing on work in the social sciences, political theory and economics, and also on the contributors‘ activist experiences, these essays present an agenda for the participation of grassroots Black leaders in developing and implementing urban policy.
Author : Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614138
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement written by Sonia Song-Ha Lee and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Author : Johanna Fernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653451
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Young Lords written by Johanna Fernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new society, skillful ability to link local problems to international crises, and uncompromising vision for a new society riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords. Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police surveillance files released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a Chicago street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization in New York. Led by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth, and consciously fashioned after the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords occupied a hospital, blocked traffic with uncollected garbage, took over a church, tested children for lead poisoning, defended prisoners, fought the military police, and fed breakfast to poor children. Their imaginative, irreverent protests and media conscious tactics won reforms, popularized socialism in the United States and exposed U.S. mainland audiences to the country's quiet imperial project in Puerto Rico. Fernandez challenges what we think we know about the sixties. She shows that movement organizers were concerned with finding solutions to problems as pedestrian as garbage collection and the removal of lead paint from tenement walls; gentrification; lack of access to medical care; childcare for working mothers; and the warehousing of people who could not be employed in deindustrialized cities. The Young Lords' politics and preoccupations, especially those concerning the rise of permanent unemployment foretold the end of the American Dream. In riveting style, Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams.
Author : John Betancur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136536035
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Collaborative City written by John Betancur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings (in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage and concentration in inner cities). The essays address two major issues: experiences and bases for collaboration and contention between the two groups; and the impact of urban policies and initiatives of recent decades on Blacks and Latinos in central cities.
Author : Sabiyha Robin Prince
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135938164
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Constructing Belonging written by Sabiyha Robin Prince and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers. It begins by considering centuries of New York City history and the structural elements of class inequality to present readers with the larger context of contemporary events. The primary objective of this study is to examine the everyday lives of black professionals in Harlem and determine what bearing income-generating activities have on ideology, consumption patterns and lifestyle, among other factors.
Author : R. Drew Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742545229
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Black Churches and Local Politics written by R. Drew Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations. These case studies illustrate how black activist clergy and congregations negotiate the political terrains of their respective cities. The cases show that the political culture of a city--whether that culture is shaped by machine politics, a legacy of political protest, racial and ethnic factionalism, or a city whose power resides in the mayor's office rather than the city council chamber--can influence the tactics of activist clergy and congregations. These cases also show how strategies and tactics vary across congregations as well as within and across cities. Not only do activist churches emphasize political empowerment or economic development, their tactics to pursue their goals may take different forms. They can form coalitions with other churches and/or political organizations, lobby public officials, use personal appeals to persuade politicians, or mobilize voters for candidates who support the congregation's agenda. By taking stock of the strategies that activist black clergy and congregations adopt and the tactics they use to research their goals, the cases in this book highlight nuances in black clergy and church activism that are captured beyond a single case or a focus on national politics. The three sections of Black Churches and Local Politics examine the many ways that black activist clergy and congregations voice their concerns in urban politics. The tactics explored are the use of personal influence by activist ministers, the formation of coalitions with churches and community organizations, and pressure groups that lobby government institutions and leaders on behalf of minority communities.
Author : Meyer Weinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313064555
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Racism in Contemporary America written by Meyer Weinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism in Contemporary America is the largest and most up-to-date bibliography available on current research on the topic. It has been compiled by award-winning researcher Meyer Weinberg, who has spent many years writing and researching contemporary and historical aspects of racism. Almost 15,000 entries to books, articles, dissertations, and other materials are organized under 87 subject-headings. In addition, there are author and ethnic-racial indexes. Several aids help the researcher access the materials included. In addition to the subject organization of the bibliography, entries are annotated whenever the title is not self-explanatory. An author index is followed by an ethnic-racial index which makes it convenient to follow a single group through any or all the subject headings. This is a source book for the serious study of America's most enduring problem; as such it will be of value to students and researchers at all levels and in most disciplines.
Author : Paul Kantor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317350359
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book American Urban Politics in a Global Age written by Paul Kantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today, American Urban Politics provides historical context and contemporary commentaries on the economy, politics, culture and identity of American cities. This seventh edition examines the ability of highly autonomous local governments to grapple with the serious challenges of recent years, challenges such as the stresses of the lingering economic crisis, and a series of recent natural disasters. Features: Each chapter is introduced by an editor's essay that places the readings into context and highlights their central ideas and findings. Division into three historical periods emphasizes both the changes and continuities in American urban politics over time. The reader is the perfect complement for Judd & Swanstrom's City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban American, 7/e, also available in a new edition (ISBN 0-205-03246-X)
