Cover; 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
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-292) and index
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