No There There - Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-520-25166-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhomberg, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Rhomberg is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University.