Race/class conflict and urban financial threat / Jennifer L. Hochschild.
| Author/creator | Hochschild, Jennifer L., 1950- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2025] |
| Description | xvii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Race, class, metaphors, and cases -- Race, class, and policing: Stop-Question-Frisk in New York -- Race, class, and housing: BeltLine in Atlanta -- Race, class, and school reform: Charter schools in Los Angeles -- Race, class, and budgeting: Public sector pensions in Chicago -- Toward an explanation of policies and politics in American cities. |
| Abstract | "The foundation of racial and class inequality shapes many of American cities' policy disputes and corresponding political alignments-except when it does not. In Race, Class, and Existential Threat, Jennifer L. Hochschild, begins with three controversial assertions: Particular policy issues in a city are associated with distinct political alignments, often independent of national-level partisan polarization or even political alignments around other policy issues. Race and class inequality underlies and often constructs these policy issues and associated political alignments. But not always: an existential threat, often based in market forces, sometimes supersedes race and class inequality in shaping policy disputes and political activity. The book's examination of those assertions is organized around a central puzzle: When is race and class inequality at the core of a policy issue? If it is at the core, how is it manifested and how does it shape the policy arena and its accompanying politics? If race and class inequality is not at the core of a policy issue, what else is-and why is that alternative force more important? Hochschild engages with that puzzle by examining four policy arenas and their accompanying politics in four large American cities: policing, especially the tactic of Stop-Question-Frisk in New York City; development, especially near the rail-to-trail BeltLine in Atlanta; school reform, especially charter schools in Los Angeles Unified School District; and fiscal policy, especially public sector union pension funding, in Chicago"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-272) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Hochschild, Jennifer L., 1950- Race/class conflict and urban financial threat New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2025 9781610449281 |
| LCCN | 2024027123 |
| ISBN | 9780871549068 paperback |
| ISBN | 0871549069 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HT123 .H625 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |