Martinez-Ebers / Calfano Human Relations Commissions

Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54919-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in promoting positive intergroup outcomes and enforcing antidiscrimination laws. Drawing on a wide range of theories and methods, they assess policy approaches, successes, and failures in four cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martinez-Ebers, Valerie

Calfano, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Too Big a Task?
1. Human Relations Commissions: Creativity in Constraint
2. The History of Intergroup Relations in America
3. Origins and Development of Organized Human Relations Efforts
4. The Humans Who Must Relate
5. Experimenting with the Dynamics of Intergroup Identity
6. Reporting and Responding to Community
7. Imagining Human Relations for the Future
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martinez-Ebers Valerie:
Valerie Martinez-Ebers is the University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science
at the University of North Texas. She is a former Vice President of the American Political Science
Association and a former President of the Western Political Science Association. From 2012 to
2016 she served as co-editor of the American Political Science Review, the flagship journal in
political science. She is co-author of
Politicas: Latina Public Officials in Texas (Texas, 2008); Latino Lives in America: Making it Home
(Temple, 2010) and Latinos in the New Millennium: an Almanac of Opinion, Behavior and Policy
Preferences (Cambridge, 2012).Calfano Brian:
Brian Calfano is assistant professor of political science and journalism at the University of Cincinnatti. He is the coeditor of Muslim Politics in America: Contested Citizenship from 9/11 to the Trump Era (Temple University Press
2018), author of Attaching Identity: Muslim Politics in Post-September 11th America. (Routledge, 2018), and co-author of A Matter of Discretion: The Politics of Catholic Priests in the US and Ireland (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).Brian Calfano is associate professor of political science and journalism at the University of Cincinnati. He is a former policy advisor for the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, and his many publications include A Matter of Discretion: The Politics of Catholic Priests in the United States and Ireland (2017) and Muslims, Identity, and American Politics (2018).

Valerie Martinez-Ebers is professor in and director of the Latina/o and Mexican American Studies program and University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. A former editor of the American Political Science Review, she is coauthor of Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas (2008); Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (2010); and Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences (2012), among other works.