Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)

Contents......Page 16
Part I: Black Mayors and the Quest for Democracy......Page 20
1 Introduction: Black Mayors and Social Change......Page 22
Transformative Black Politics: A Third Wave......Page 34
Is Empowerment Possible?......Page 38
Power and Deep Pluralism......Page 46
Gear Shifting: The Strategic Use of Civil Power in Building Coalitions......Page 47
From Coalitions to Alliances......Page 52
2 “The Dirty Little Secret” of Black Politics......Page 58
Accountability as a Political Imperative for Black Mayors......Page 65
“They May Be Vulnerable Themselves”: The Logic of Demobilization of the Black Community......Page 73
Resources for Mobilization: Old and New Forms of Patronage......Page 81
Does the Institutionalization of Black Politics Preclude Disruptive Politics?......Page 90
3 Acquiring, Building, and Sustaining Power: Black CivicOrganizations in Urban Democracy......Page 94
Contours and Divides in Black Political Thought......Page 98
Popular Support for Differing Black Political Strategies......Page 101
Trends in Black Civic Participation and Capacity......Page 104
Community-Based Organizations......Page 107
Trade Unions......Page 109
Black Churches......Page 112
Black Coalitions......Page 114
Recent National Coalition Efforts......Page 120
Black Mayors and Black Coalitions......Page 124
Community Capacity for Pluralism......Page 128
4 Race and Interracial Coalitions......Page 134
Ideal and Less-than-Ideal Biracial Coalitions......Page 139
Black Mayoral Politics......Page 142
Black/White Racial Dialogue......Page 149
Intraminority Coalitions......Page 153
Black Mayors and Interracial Solidarity......Page 163
Racial Solidarity in Oakland......Page 166
Part II: The Dinkins Experience......Page 174
5 “Cursed by Factions and Feuds”: Black Factionalism and the Structure of New York City Government......Page 176
Black Political Beginnings in New York City......Page 178
The New Deal–World War II Era......Page 180
Post-New Deal Stagnation in Racial Progress......Page 184
New York’s Political Structure and Its Effect on Black Politics......Page 185
Black Electoral Politics in Manhattan......Page 189
Black Politics in Brooklyn......Page 192
Black Machine Politics in Queens......Page 195
Fighting Puerto Ricans in the Bronx......Page 198
The 1984 Jackson Presidential Campaign in New York City......Page 201
The Coalition for a Just New York (CJNY)......Page 202
The Third Attempt: The 1988 Jackson Campaign......Page 204
Why a Black Coalition Emerged During Dinkins’s Campaign for Mayor......Page 207
6 “Set Up a Think Tank”: A Black Mayor’s Accountability to the Black Community: The Case of David Dinkins......Page 212
Pressures to Conform......Page 217
Shift in Political Strategy: Community Mobilization and Power......Page 226
Promise and Pitfalls in Using Administrative Power to Organize the Black Community......Page 231
7 Race, Class, and Ideology in a New York Mayoral Election......Page 240
Conservative White Mobilization and Resurgent Black Nationalism......Page 246
“Go Black” or “Go White”: A Mayor’s Impossible Choice......Page 253
From Black Nationalism to Multiracial Coalition Building......Page 258
Race and Ideological Polarization in New York......Page 268
Summing-Up: Race and Political Change in New York City......Page 275
8 Conclusion: From Con.ict to Transformation......Page 284
Deepening Black Pluralism and Counterarguments in Other Cities......Page 289
Arguments for Regionalism......Page 293
Notes......Page 298
References......Page 322
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