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

by George Baca and Professor George Baca

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813547520
• ISBN13: 9780813547527
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"