Book description
The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.
The country's largest concentration of African American suburban affluence represents a unique laboratory to study the internal factors associated with African American political ascendancy and the convergence of race and class. Black Power in the Suburbs chronicles Prince George's County,…
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1 author picked Black Power in the Suburbs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book brings together questions regarding political power alongside those of race and class inequality.
While the previous three books I’ve recommended are written by sociologists, Johnson is a political scientist. Using the case of Prince George’s County, the jurisdiction I examine in my research, she investigates the extent to which Black Americans’ political control of this suburban county leads to agreement on policy goals and African Americans’ ability to achieve them.
As I was crafting the questions that guided my research in Prince George’s, this book helped me to identify that fiscal capacity, the ability to generate sufficient tax…
From Angela's list on The best books on how the Black middle class reveals the racial reality of the United States.
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