Conjuring Crisis : Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City.

How have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes "reformed" politics i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baca, George
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=420862
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Narrating a racial crisis
  • Conspiracies and crises on Cape Fear
  • The cunning of radical reform
  • Performing crisis
  • Threatening images of black power
  • Power shift
  • Outsiders and special interests
  • Single shot
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue.