| Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs Contributor(s): Frasure-Yokley, Lorrie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107446929 ISBN-13: 9781107446922 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $25.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 305.606 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Suburban - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Locality - Washington, D.C. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs examines racial and ethnic politics outside traditional urban contexts and questions the standard models we use to understand mobility and government responses to rapid demographic change and political demands. This study moves beyond traditional scholarship in urban politics, departing from the persistent treatment of racial dynamics in terms of a simple black-white binary. Combining an interdisciplinary, multi-method and multi-racial approach with a well-integrated analysis of multiple forms of data including focus groups, in-depth interviews and survey data, Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs explains how and why redistributive policies that accommodate new immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities - something that given earlier knowledge and theorizing should never happen - takes place. Lorrie Frasure-Yokley relies on the framework of suburban institutional interdependency (SII), which presents a new way of thinking systematically about local politics within the context of suburban political institutions in the U.S. today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frasure-Yokley, Lorrie: - Lorrie Frasure-Yokley is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of her recent work appears in Urban Affairs Review and the National Political Science Review. She is the Co-Principle Investigator of the Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Study (CMPS) 2008 and 2012, the first multi-state, multi-racial, multi-lingual post election study of racial and political preferences and behavior among registered voters in the United States. She is the recipient of several local and national awards, including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Research Council of the National Academies, and the Clarence Stone Young Scholar Award of the American Political Science Association's Urban Politics Section. |