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Race, Class, and Politics in the Black Community

2015
Abstract Class is an underdeveloped concept in both formal and informal U.S. political discourse. There is little historical or sustained popular discourse on elites, workers, the bourgeoisie, or the unemployed. Nonetheless, class is still a crucial axis upon which people organize themselves politically and through which political ...
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Race, Class, and Psychological Distress: Contextual Variations across Four American Communities

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2000
Analyses investigating the role of race and class in the propensity to psychological distress have yielded conflicting results. We contend that one reason for this inconsistency is that previous studies, based on empirical data drawn from different places and times, have interpreted results without reference to the distinctive racial contexts across ...
Schwabe, A. M., Kodras, J. E.
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'Race' and Class or 'Race', Class, Gender and Community?: A Critical Appraisal of the Radicalised Fraction of the Working-Class Thesis

The British Journal of Sociology, 1989
This paper recognizes the contribution made by Robert Miles to marxist scholarship on 'race' and class in Britain but it suggests that his central thesis is flawed in that a consideration of gender and community should be as central to the analysis as that of social class. TOWARDS A MARXIST THEORY OF RACISM Robert Miles, in my opinion, has provided the
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“Class before Race”: British Communism and the Place of Empire in Postwar Race Relations

Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis, 2008
The Communist Party of Great Britain, as the largest organization to the left of the Labour Party and an influential body within the trade union movement, occupied an important position in the anti-racist and anti-colonial movements in Britain from the 1920s until the 1970s.
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Race, Class, and the Restructuring of Urban Community Development

2013
This chapter examines the structuring and restructuring of the field of community development (CD). To show how this occurs, the chapter examines interventions of the local state and how CD, as a field, can understand this restructuring and overcome it successfully.
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Race, Class, and Politics in the Black Community of Boston

The Review of Black Political Economy, 1982
We found that there are indeed some slight differences in the electoral behavior of black voters when we separate them into high and low socio-economic areal categories based on the level of median income. These slight differences include turnout rates for primary and general elections and voter registration rates.
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Race, Class, Gender and Community College Persistence Among African American Women

NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2014
This inquiry is an exploration of the educational trajectories of African American women community college students. We compare the persistence of African American women to African American men and to all women college students using the 1996/2001 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Survey and the 1993/2003 Baccalaureate and Beyond ...
MaryBeth Walpole, Crystal Renee Chambers, Kathryn Goss   +2 more
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Home, School, and Community Partnerships: Integrating Issues of Race, Culture, and Social Class

Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 1998
The current review is an examination of home-school-community partnerships utilizing an ecological approach to understand the influences of race, culture, and social class. The ecological approach recognizes that families and schools are embedded in communities, and that these settings influence each other and the development of children.
G, Wright, E P, Smith
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Race, class and green jobs in low-income communities in the US: challenges for community development

2016
This chapter focuses on green jobs programs that targeted low-income residents, especially Blacks living in chronically distressed communities. The period under study begins with the date the United States Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and continues until the height of the congressional budget fights in March ...
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Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community.

Contemporary Sociology, 1992
John M. Stahura, Elijah Anderson
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