No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland / Edition 1

by Chris Rhomberg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520251663
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	02/26/2007
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1600L (what's this?)

About the Author

Chris Rhomberg is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Table of Contents

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