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

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New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.

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Summary	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 in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights era. In the 1990s at Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, North Carolina, the city's dominant political coalition of white civic and business leaders had lost control of the city council. Amid accusations of racism in the police department, two white council m.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
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.
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Subject	Racism -- North Carolina -- Fayetteville.
	Racism.
	North Carolina -- Fayetteville.
	Urban poor -- Government policy -- North Carolina -- Fayetteville.
	Urban poor -- Government policy.
	Urban poor.
	Urban policy -- North Carolina -- Fayetteville.
	Urban policy.
	Fayetteville (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Racism.
Other Form:	Print version: Baca, George. Conjuring Crisis : Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813547510
ISBN	9780813549798 (electronic book)
	0813549795 (electronic book)
	0813547520
	9780813547527
	0813547512
	9780813547510
Standard No.	9786613383136

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