America&#039;s Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

Curtis L. Ivery; Joshua Bassett

doi:10.5771/9781442211018

Summary

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.

Ivery and Bassett combine their own experience in the fields of civil rights and education with the knowledge of more than 20 experts in the field of urban studies to provide an accessible overview of the theories of the urban underclass and how they affect America's urban crisis. This engaging look into the still-present racial politics in America's cities adds significantly to the existing scholarship on the urban underclass by discussing the role of the prison-industrial complex in sustaining the urban crisis as well as the importance of the concept of multiracial democracy to the future of American politics and society. America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics encourages the reader not only to be aware of persisting racial inequalities, but to actively engage in efforts to respond to them.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-1099-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-1101-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 192
Product type: Edited Book

1. CONTENTS No access
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
3. FOREWORD No access
4. PREFACE No access
1 INTRODUCTION and Theoretical Overview No access Pages 1 - 20
1. “Color-Blindness, Racism, and Multiracial Democracy” No access
2. “ ‘Difference,’ Emiseration, and America’s Urban Crisis” No access
3. “Sure, We’re All Just One Big Happy Family” No access
4. “Immigration, Education, and the Media” No access
5. “Incarcerated and Disappeared in the Land of the Free” No access
1. “Mass Incarceration, Civil Death, and the New Racial Domain” No access
2. “Mass Incarceration, Race, and Criminal Justice Policy” No access
3. “Racial Profiling and Imprisonment of the Mentally Ill” No access
4. “The Case of Jonathan Magbie” No access
1. “Race and Residential Segregation in Detroit” No access
2. “Health Care as a Civil Rights Issue” No access
3. “A Call for Multicultural Dialogues” No access
4. “American Education: Still Separate, Still Unequal” No access
1. “Toward a Paradigm Shift in Our Concept of Education” No access
2. “Writing and Multiracial Education” No access
3. “Police in Schools: Can a Law Enforcement Orientation Be Reconciled with an Educational Mission?” No access
4. “Pursuing the Promise of Brown in the Twenty-First Century” No access
1. “In Our Lifetime” No access
2. “Making Every Vote Count” No access
3. “Segregation by Race, Segregation from Opportunity, and the Subversion of Multiracial Democracy in Detroit” No access
4. “How We Are White” No access
7 TOWARD SOLUTIONS to the Urban Crisis No access Pages 163 - 166
INDEX No access Pages 167 - 178
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS No access Pages 179 - 192