No there there : race, class, and political community in Oakland / Chris Rhomberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhomberg, Chris, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--California--Oakland--History--20th century.

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).

African Americans--Civil rights--California--Oakland--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Black power--California--Oakland--History--20th century.

Black power.

Social classes--California--Oakland--History--20th century.

Social classes.

General strikes--California--Oakland--History--20th century.

General strikes.

Social conflict--California--Oakland--History--20th century.

Social conflict.

Oakland (Calif.)--Race relations.

Oakland (Calif.).

Oakland (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Oakland (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40's, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episodes of popular insurgency for what they can tell us about critical discontinuities in the American experience of urban political community.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Maps

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. No There There: Social Movements and Urban Political Community

2. Corporate Power and Ethnic Patronage: Machine Politics in Oakland

3. The Making of a White Middle Class: The Ku Klux Klan and Urban Reform

4. Economic Crisis and Class Hegemony: The Rule of Downtown

5. Working-Class Collective Agency: The General Strike and Labor Insurgency

6. Reconstituting the Urban Regime: Redevelopment and the Central City

7. Bureaucratic Insulation and Racial Conflict: The Challenge of Black Power

8. From Social Movements to Social Change: Oakland and Twentieth-Century Urban America

Methodological Appendix: Telling Stories about Actors and Events

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612360299

9781282360297

1282360299

9780520940888

0520940881

9781597347761

1597347760

OCLC:

475931885