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Governing American Cities Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition, and Conflict / Michael Jones-Correa, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--Political activity--United States.
- Minorities.
- Municipal government--United States.
- Municipal government.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The new immigrants who have poured into the United States over the past thirty years are rapidly changing the political landscape of American cities.Like their predecessors at the turn of the century, recent immigrants have settled overwhelmingly in a few large urban areas, where they receive their first sustained experience with government in.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. Comparative Approaches to Changing Interethnic Relations in Cities / Michael Jones-Correa ; Part I. New Actors in Cities ; Chapter 1. Immigrant Political Participation in New York and Los Angeles / John Mollenkopf, David Olson, and Timothy Ross ; Chapter 2. Ethnic Subcontracting as an Impediment to Interethnic Coalitions: The Chinese Experience / Peter Kwong ; Chapter 3. Korean Americans and the Crisis of the Liberal Coalition: Immigrants and Politics in Los Angeles / Edward J. W. Park and John S. W. Park
- Part II. Competition and Conflict Chapter 4. Racial Minority Group Relations in a Multiracial Society / Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber ; Chapter 5. Blacks and Cubans in Miami: The Negative Consequences of the Cuban Enclave on Ethnic Relations / Guillermo J. Grenier and Max Castro ; Chapter 6. Protest or Violence: Political Process and Patterns of Black-Korean Conflict / Patrick D. Joyce ; Part III. Cooperation and Coalition-Building ; Chapter 7. Structural Shifts and Institutional Capacity: Possibilities for Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict in Urban Settings / Michael Jones-Correa
- Chapter 8. When Ideologies Agree and Interests Collide, What's a Leader to Do? The Prospects for Latino-Jewish Coalition in Los Angeles / Raphael J. Sonenshein Chapter 9. Interethnic Politics in the Consensus City / Matthew McKeever ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-321-7
- OCLC:
- 906809518
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