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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, 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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“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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No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland

Labor, 2005
Joseph A. Rodriguez, Chris Rhomberg
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the changing significance of race and class in an African‐American community

American Ethnologist, 1992
The post—civil rights era has witnessed the growth of the black middle class and increased class stratification in African‐American communities. This article examines how state‐sponsored reforms associated with civil rights era activism restructured political power in an African‐American community, shifting the focus of neighborhood activism from ...
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The Role of Race and Class in Defining the Australasian Amateur Community

2014
The home of professional athletics in Sydney in the late nineteenth century was named after Englishman Lord Carrington, the Liberal Governor of New South Wales.1 His Lordship also assumed patronage of the New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association (NSWAAA) in 1888 after the association became firmly established.2 Carrington had waited to become ...
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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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Forging community in race and class: critical race theory and the quest for social justice in education

Race Ethnicity and Education, 2006
Among the communities of critical race theorists and its detractors in education, there is an apparent rift as to what theoretical construct best contributes to the social justice project in education. Conferences and meetings have served as quasi‐battle grounds for theorists, activists and scholars to go back and forth about what theoretical construct
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The Black Community in the 1980s: Questions of Race, Class, and Public Policy

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1981
Because the dissimilar effects of policy pro grams on different segments of the black population are usually not specified or recognized, recent developments involving Blacks are puzzling to observers of race relations. This article argues for a return to the emphasis on the eco nomic dimensions of racial inequality that characterized important ...
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