Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: Justice, Power, and Politics
Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America
Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: Justice, Power, and Politics
ISBN: 978-1-4696-7385-1
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon K. Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment. Taking readers into Chicago's street-level politics and the often tense relationships among communities and their organizers, Mantler shows how white supremacy, deindustrialization, dysfunction, and voters' own contradictory expectations stubbornly impeded many of Washington's proposed reforms. Ultimately, Washington's historic victory and the thwarted ambitions of his administration provide a cautionary tale about the peril of placing too much weight on electoral politics above other forms of civic action—a lesson today's activists would do well to heed.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte