America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
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In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of racial inequalities in American cities today. The editors combine their own experience in the field of civil rights with contributions of more than 20 urban studies experts to provide an overview of scholarship on the urban underclass. This look into the modern racial politics of America's cities encourages readers not only to be aware of inequalities, but to engage in efforts to change them.

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In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of racial inequalities in American cities today. The editors combine their own experience in the field of civil rights with contributions of more than 20 urban studies experts to provide an overview of scholarship on the urban underclass. This look into the modern racial politics of America's cities encourages readers not only to be aware of inequalities, but to engage in efforts to change them.
Autorenporträt
Curtis Ivery, Ed. D., Chancellor of the Wayne County Community College District in Detroit. He was formerly Commissioner of Human Services in Arkansas under Governor William Clinton. He has been engaged in civil rights projects for more than three decades and has published extensively on civil rights issues. Joshua Bassett, coeditor, is Director of the Institute for Social Progress, a civil rights and educational institute located at Wayne County Community College District. He was executive director of the "Educational Summit: Detroit and the Crisis in Urban America Conference" (broadcast nationally on C-Span network) as well as the national "Rebuilding Lives" criminal justice conference, held in Detroit in 2004. His current academic work concerns the application of semiotic theory to studies of color-blind ideology.