African-American Mayors Race, Politics, and the American City
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.02.2005
Herausgeber
David R. ColburnVerlag
University of Illinois PressSeitenzahl
280
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.1 cm
Gewicht
399 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-252-07260-4
Once in office, African-American mayors faced the intractable problems of decaying inner cities, white flight, a dwindling tax base, violent crime, and diminishing federal support for social programs. Many encountered hostility from their own parties, city councils, and police departments; others worked against long-established power structures dominated by local business owners or politicians. Still others, while trying to respond to multiple demands from a diverse constituency, were viewed as traitors by blacks expecting special attention from a leader of their own race. All struggled with the contradictory mandate of meeting the increasing needs of poor inner-city residents while keeping white businesses from fleeing to the suburbs.
Mayors profiled include Carl B. Stokes (Cleveland), Richard G. Hatcher (Gary), "Dutch" Morial (New Orleans), Harold Washington (Chicago), Tom Bradley (Los Angeles), Marion Barry (Washington, D.C.), David Dinkins (New York City), Coleman Young (Detroit), and a succession of black mayors in Atlanta (Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, and Bill Campbell).
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