This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians in key urban centers. Collectively, the essays examine the particular status of relations between these groups, the reasons for conflict or consensus, and the prospects for future relations. While a number of cities are examined, the book focuses on Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Miami as particularly instructive case studies. Urban eruptions in these cities are examined in terms of the nature of political relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians.These essays provide analyses within a sociohistorical context and offer the kind of political activism that might ensure consensus, rather than conflict, between these groups in urban America. As Luis Fuentes observes, This book should be read by all activists and scholars interested in changing the face of urban and ultimately, national America; for if communities of color can come together for progressive political action, then it will only be a matter of time before America finally begins to look like, and act like, what it has been preaching for generations.

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism

Politics & Social Sciences

Jennings, James

Social Sciences

Praeger

This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians in key urban centers. Collectively, the essays examine the particular status of relations between these groups, the reasons for conflict or consensus, and the prospects for future relations. While a number of cities are examined, the book focuses on Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Miami as particularly instructive case studies. Urban eruptions in these cities are examined in terms of the nature of political relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians.
These essays provide analyses within a sociohistorical context and offer the kind of political activism that might ensure consensus, rather than conflict, between these groups in urban America. As Luis Fuentes observes, This book should be read by all activists and scholars interested in changing the face of urban and ultimately, national America; for if communities of color can come together for progressive political action, then it will only be a matter of time before America finally begins to look like, and act like, what it has been preaching for generations.

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism (School Librarianship)

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America

This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America. The major themes, topics, debates, and issues are examined through an analysis of eight basic questions about the nature and problem of urban poverty: *What is poverty, and how is it measured? *What kinds of national policies have been utilized to manage poverty? *What are the major characteristics and trends associated with poverty in America, and how are race and ethnicity reflected in these trends? *What are the major explanations for persistent poverty in the United States? *What are the major characteristics and themes reflected in the American welfare system and anti-poverty policies? *How is the underclass defined and explained? *How have the poor utilized political mobilization to fight poverty in the United States? *How does social welfare policy directed at poverty in America compare to social welfare systems in other countries?
After analyzing these issues, Jennings concludes with a brief overview of how public discussions related to poverty in the 1990s are similar to such debates in earlier periods. Essential reading for urban policy makers, social scientists, and students of contemporary American urban concerns.

A guide to the key issues and writings on urban poverty in contemporary America.|This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America.

Book by Jennings, James, Rivera, Monte

Puerto Rican Politics in Urban America: (Contributions in Political Science)

Rivera, Monte

Go Ask Alice

Children's Books

Biographies

Avon/Books

This classic novel, sometimes attributed to one "James Jennings," was published by Olympia in the firm's later incarnations. Eveline:  is 18, beautiful, aristocratic, intelligent, and uppermost in the minds of male admirers. This young student sweeps readers along in her tales of erotic pleasure with the lascivious Major General, the prodigiously endowed stable-hand, and the splendid but stern Inspector General. This tale of a girl's sexual rites of passage is audacious, surprising, and blazingly erotic--  as one review puts it, though that's hardly the whole story. The Major-General is a blood relative, as are other objects of Eveline's hardly-innocent affections.

Eveline: The Amorous Adventures of a Victorian Lady

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

GROVE PRESS

In the tradition of such works as The Romance of Lust, The Boudoir, Suburban Souls, and Beatrice, this powerfully poetic, powerfully sensuous story of an alluring, enigmatic young woman learning about the infinite manifestations of love, holds a revered place in the Blue Moon Victorian Library.

Laura (Grove Press Victorian library)

covers a range of national and international topics which have been written by a distinguished group of experts on race and ethnicity. The reader will find new articles covering recent events, historical and theoretical perspectives and important figures. Over half of the book has been revised or rewritten and all of the articles include fully-updated lists of further reading.

Dict Race & Ethnic Relatn

Banton, Michael

Van Den Berghe, Pierre L.

Troyna, Barry

Cashmore, Ernest

Routledge

In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, James Jennings focuses on both the behavioral aspects, such as individual and group characteristics of voting and nonvoting and elections, as well a more fundamental philosophical and cultural questions regarding Black politics.
This study examines how the "traditional" face of Black politics and electoral activism interacts with a growing "progressive" face of Black politics. While traditional Black political activists seek access or political incorporation, another group aims for power sharing. The traditional approach is sometimes satisfied with merely replacing white politicians with Blacks, but the progressive constituency focuses on fundamentally changing the whole economic and political pie. Activist desirous of Black empowerment are pursuing a political and economic orientation that goes beyond programs based on access to American institutional arrangements and attempting to change or alter given political arrangements and social relations between Blacks and whites on the basis of changing the social structure and the distribution of wealth and power.
Based on interviews with Black and Latino activist in several big cities as well as review of the literature and the Black newspapers around the country, The Politics of Black Empowerment describes the characteristics of Black empowerment activism in America.

The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America (African American Life)

Wayne State University Press

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Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism (School Librarianship)

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America

Puerto Rican Politics in Urban America: (Contributions in Political Science)

Go Ask Alice

Eveline: The Amorous Adventures of a Victorian Lady

Laura (Grove Press Victorian library)

Dict Race & Ethnic Relatn

The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America (African American Life)