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Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a post-racial nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Ivery and Bassett combine their own experience in the fields of civil rights and education with the knowledge of more than 20 experts in the field of urban studies to provide an accessible overview of the theories of the urban underclass and how they affect America's urban crisis. This engaging look into the still-present racial politics in America's cities adds significantly to the existing scholarship on the urban underclass by discussing the role of the prison-industrial complex in sustaining the urban crisis as well as the importance of the concept of multiracial democracy to the future of American politics and society. America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics encourages the reader not only to be aware of persisting racial inequalities, but to actively engage in efforts to respond to them.Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield, Benjamin DeMott, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Andrew Grant-Thomas, Grace Lee Boggs, Lani Guinier, Bob Herbert, Houston Baker, Erica Frankenberg
ISBN-139780810894976
eBay Product ID (ePID)23046668119
Product Key Features
Number of Pages212 Pages
Publication NameAmerica's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial Sciences, Education, Strategy
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaUrban Planning, Economic Sociology
AuthorJoshua Bassett, Curtis Ivery
Dimensions
Item Height230 mm
Item Weight318 g
Additional Product Features
EditorJoshua Bassett, Curtis Ivery
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States