This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives. By doing so, it provides a significant contribution to the study of music and politics/social movements from an inter-American perspective.…
Hardback – 2019-04-15
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InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
Michael Rogin’s scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. He reconstituted the field by opening it to an array of texts, performances and methods previously considered beyond the purview of the discipline. As a co-founder of ‘new historicism’ he…
Hardback – 2019-03-31
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Routledge Innovators in Political Theory
Black Politics in Transition considers the impact of three transformative forces—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—on Black politics today. Demographic changes resulting from immigration and ethnic blending are dramatically affecting the character and identity of Black populations…
Paperback – 2018-10-19
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Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Politics and Policy
Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme – that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity – City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics. Its…
Paperback – 2018-09-06
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This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925–1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) and Walter Rodney (1942–1980). All three began their careers in the Diaspora and later turned toward Africa. This became the foundation…
Paperback – 2018-08-23
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How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos? This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative…
Paperback – 2018-06-13
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At the core of African American religion’s response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration. Drawing on archival material and ethnographic fieldwork with African American Spiritual Churches in the USA, this book examines…
Hardback – 2017-12-20
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Routledge Studies in Religion
This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015. Contributors take Baltimore to be an important place, symbol, and marker…
Hardback – 2017-06-01
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Routledge Research in Journalism
This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics. Through the use of two interrelated themes -- the idea of universal freedom and the concept of…
Paperback – 2017-03-27
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The field of public administration holds social equity and inclusiveness as a core administrative value, but African American voices in the discourse about the theory and practice of public administration have been ignored all too often. This book is the first to formally chronicle the evolution of…
Paperback – 2016-11-17
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The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in…
Paperback – 2016-08-12
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Routledge Series on Identity Politics
Minority women in the United States draw from their unique personal experiences, born of their identities, to impact American politics. Whether as political elites or as average citizens, minority women demonstrate that they have a unique voice that more often than not centers on their visions of…
Paperback – 2016-05-03
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Routledge Series on Identity Politics