Racial and ethnic politics in American suburbs / Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, University of California, Los Angeles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frasure-Yokley, Lorrie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Washington Suburban Area--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Washington Suburban Area.

Washington Suburban Area--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Washington Suburban Area--Race relations--Political aspects.

Washington Suburban Area--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 187 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Racial & Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs examines racial and ethnic politics outside traditional urban contexts and questions the standard models we use to understand mobility and government responses to rapid demographic change and political demands. This study moves beyond traditional scholarship in urban politics, departing from the persistent treatment of racial dynamics in terms of a simple black-white binary. Combining an interdisciplinary, multi-method and multi-racial approach with a well-integrated analysis of multiple forms of data including focus groups, in-depth interviews and survey data, Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs explains how and why redistributive policies that accommodate new immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities - something that given earlier knowledge and theorizing should never happen - takes place. Lorrie Frasure-Yokley relies on the framework of suburban institutional interdependency (SII), which presents a new way of thinking systematically about local politics within the context of suburban political institutions in the United States today.

Contents:

Race, Ethnicity, Class, and the Suburban Political Economy Dilemma

New Neighbors in Suburban Washington, DC : Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Settlement Surrounding the Nation's Capital

Educating Immigrant, Minority and Low-Income Students in Suburbia

The Politics of Institutionalizing Day Labor Centers in Suburbia

Lost in Translation : Language Access at Government Agencies in Suburbia.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-45218-2

1-316-45506-8

1-316-45554-8

1-316-45602-1

1-316-45650-1

1-316-45842-3

1-316-45794-X

1-316-02718-X