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Conjuring crisis : racism and civil rights in a southern military city / George Baca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baca, George.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--North Carolina--Fayetteville.
- Racism.
- Urban poor--Government policy--North Carolina--Fayetteville.
- Urban poor.
- Urban policy--North Carolina--Fayetteville.
- Urban policy.
- Fayetteville (N.C.)--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Fayetteville (N.C.).
- Fayetteville (N.C.)--Politics and government.
- Fayetteville (N.C.)--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes "reformed" politics in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights era. In the 1990's at Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, North Carolina, the city's dominant political coalition of white civic and business leaders had lost control of the city council. Amid accusations of racism in the police department, two white council members joined black colleagues in support of the NAACP's demand for an investigation. George Baca's ethnographic research reveals how residents and politicians transformed an ordinary conflict into a "crisis" that raised the specter of chaos and disaster. He explores new territory by focusing on the broader intersection of militarization, urban politics, and civil rights.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Narrating a Racial Crisis
- Chapter 2. Conspiracies and Crises on Cape Fear
- Chapter 3. The Cunning of Racial Reform
- Chapter 4. Performing Crisis
- Chapter 5. Threatening Images of Black Power
- Chapter 6. Power Shift
- Chapter 7. Outsiders and Special Interests
- Chapter 8. Single Shot
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-38313-6
- 9786613383136
- 0-8135-4979-5
- OCLC:
- 769927198
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