America's urban crisis and the advent of color-blind politics [[electronic resource] ] : education, incarceration, segregation, and the future of U.S. multiracial democracy / / edited by Curtis L. Ivery & Joshua A. Bassett

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.2/6
• Soggetto topico: Educational equalization; Discrimination in education; Imprisonment
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: IveryCurtis L BassettJoshua A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION and Theoretical Overview; 2 COLOR-BLIND IDEOLOGY and the Urban Crisis; "Color-Blindness, Racism, and Multiracial Democracy"; " 'Difference,' Emiseration, and America's Urban Crisis"; "Sure, We're All Just One Big Happy Family"; "Immigration, Education, and the Media"; "Incarcerated and Disappeared in the Land of the Free"; 3 MASS INCARCERATION and the Urban Crisis; "Mass Incarceration, Civil Death, and the New Racial Domain" ; "Mass Incarceration, Race, and Criminal Justice Policy""Racial Profiling and Imprisonment of the Mentally Ill"; "The Case of Jonathan Magbie"; 4 SEGREGATION and the Urban Crisis; "Race and Residential Segregation in Detroit"; "Health Care as a Civil Rights Issue"; "A Call for Multicultural Dialogues"; "American Education: Still Separate, Still Unequal"; 5 EDUCATION and the Urban Crisis; "Toward a Paradigm Shift in Our Concept of Education"; "Writing and Multiracial Education"; "Police in Schools: Can a Law Enforcement Orientation Be Reconciled with an Educational Mission?" ; "Pursuing the Promise of Brown in the Twenty-First Century"6 MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY and the Urban Crisis; "In Our Lifetime"; "Making Every Vote Count"; "Segregation by Race, Segregation from Opportunity, and the Subversion of Multiracial Democracy in Detroit"; "How We Are White"; 7 TOWARD SOLUTIONS to the Urban Crisis; INDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Ivery and Bassett combine their own experience in the field of civil rights with contributions of urban studies experts to provide an overview of scholarship on the urban underclass. This look into the modern racial politics of America's cities encourages readers not only to be aware of inequalities, but to engage in efforts to change them.
• Titolo autorizzato: America's urban crisis and the advent of color-blind politics
• ISBN: 9781442211018
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453185503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II