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Killing African Americans

Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism

By: Noel A. Cazenave

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Killing African Americans

Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism

By: Noel A. Cazenave

Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave’s well-researched and conceptualized historical sociological study is one of the first books to focus exclusively on those killings and to treat them as political violence. Few issues have received as much conventional and social media attention in the United States over the past few years or have, for decades now, sparked so many protests and so often strained race relations to a near breaking point. Because of both its timely and its enduring relevance, Killing African Americans can reach a large audience composed not only of students and scholars, but also of Movement for Black Lives activists, politicians, public policy analysts, concerned police officers and other criminal justice professionals, and anyone else eager to better understand this American nightmare and its solutions from a progressive and informed African American perspective.

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Routledge

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0429016131

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9780429016134

Impossible Democracy

The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs

By: Noel A. Cazenave

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Impossible Democracy

The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs

By: Noel A. Cazenave

Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom that the War on Poverty failed, by exploring the unlikely success of its community action programs. Using two projects in Manhattan that were influential precursors of community action programs—the Mobilization for Youth and the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Teams—Noel A. Cazenave analyzes national and local conflicts in the 1960s over what the nature of community action should be. Fueled by the civil rights movement, activist social scientists promoted a model of community action that allowed for the use of social protest as an instrument of local reform. In addition, they advanced a more participatory view of how democracy should work, one that insisted local decision making not be left solely to elected officials and other powerful people, as traditionally done.

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State University of New York Press

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0791479722

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9780791479728

Conceptualizing Racism

Breaking the Chains of Racially Accommodative Language

By: Noel A. Cazenave

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Conceptualizing Racism

Breaking the Chains of Racially Accommodative Language

By: Noel A. Cazenave

Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. Author Noel A. Cazenave argues that American social science has, since its inception, practiced linguistic racial accommodation that blurs our understanding of systemic racism and makes it difficult to effect meaningful change. Conceptualizing Racism highlights how words matter in racism studies. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology as a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442252367

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9781442252363

The Urban Racial State

Managing Race Relations in American Cities

By: Noel A. Cazenave

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The Urban Racial State

Managing Race Relations in American Cities

By: Noel A. Cazenave

The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of the political structure whose chief function for cities and other urban governments is the regulation of race relations within their geopolitical boundaries. In The Urban Racial State, Cazenave incorporates extensive archival and oral history case study data to support the placement of racism analysis as the focal point of the formulation of urban theory and the study of urban politics. Cazenave's approach offers a set of analytical tools that is sophisticated enough to address topics like the persistence of the urban racial state under the rule of African Americans and other politicians of color.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442207779

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9781442207776

Kindness Wars

The History and Political Economy of Human Caring

By: Noel A. Cazenave

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Kindness Wars

The History and Political Economy of Human Caring

By: Noel A. Cazenave

Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities. Cazenave conceptualizes kindness not just as a benevolent feeling, a caring thought, or a generous action but as a worldview, a theory, or an ideology that explains who we are and justifies how we treat others. Here “kindness wars” refer to the millennia-old “kindness theory” and ideological conflicts over what kind of societies humans can and should have. The book’s title denotes the two types of kindness wars it analyzes, conflict over (1) whether to be kind or not (i.e., the conflicts between kindness and other societal values and ideologies) and (2) what it means to be kind (i.e., the wars within kindness over different ideas as to what it means to be kind and to whom). Using a conflict theoretical perspective, Kindness Wars examines the history of the kindness concept; its many struggles with opposing notions of our true nature and possibilities; and what the lessons of that history and those battles offer us toward the development of a large, robust, and politically engaged conceptualization of kindness.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000954641

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9781000954647

Welfare Racism

Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor

By: Kenneth J. Neubeck,Noel A. Cazenave

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Welfare Racism

Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor

By: Kenneth J. Neubeck,Noel A. Cazenave

Welfare Racism analyzes the impact of racism on US welfare policy. Through historical and present-day analysis, the authors show how race-based attitudes, policy making, and administrative policies have long had a negative impact on public assistance programs. The book adds an important and controversial voice to the current welfare debates surrounding the recent legilation that abolished the AFDC.

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Routledge

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1134001517

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Book's by Noel A. Cazenave

Killing African Americans

Killing African Americans

Impossible Democracy

Impossible Democracy

Conceptualizing Racism

Conceptualizing Racism

The Urban Racial State

The Urban Racial State

Kindness Wars

Kindness Wars

Welfare Racism

Welfare Racism

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