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The Bubbling Cauldron Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis Michael Peter Smith and Joe R. Feagin, editors |
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Examines racial and ethnic conflict in troubled cities. How can race and ethnicity be understood as questions of power? How do changes among racial and ethnic groups alter conflicts about these groups' identities and the resultant power structure shaped by these conflicts? The contributors to this important new volume take up these questions and others as they delve beneath the turbulent surface of racial and ethnic relations in urban centers worldwide. These essays, by prominent writers on racial issues, provide a telling background for ongoing discussions about multiculturalism, cultural politics, and urban crises. Their subjects include the social construction of racial and ethnic differences, the impact of the state on these relations, the globalization of race and ethnicity, and the character of mobility, incorporation, and exclusion in contemporary cities. Together, these essays explain why race is a central source of meaning, identity, and power in the United States-and why it not just enduring but intensifying as a category as economic, cultural, and social borders become ever more fluid. "The Bubbling Cauldron is useful because it explores major controversies confronting urban and ethnic studies. This accessible volume is a welcome attempt to harness the discussion of racial and ethnic identity to a contingent and historicized political economy." —Contemporary Sociology "The Bubbling Cauldron provides the depth of current political analyses [other books] lack. This collection of essays on various aspects of urban life is useful for political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other scholars interested in urban life and politics." —American Political Science Review "Smith and Feagin have compiled an excellent mix of recent theoretical and empirical studies that provide fresh insight on racial and ethnic trends in American society. Their approach, reflected in the articles they have anthologized, is to explore the process of racial and ethnic formation, especially as this is mediated by the state and other societal institutions. The Bubbling Cauldron offers a critical alternative to the reductionist tendencies that are so pronounced in the literature on race and ethnicity." Stephen Steinberg, The Journal of American Ethnic History "A timely collection of essays on race and ethnicity in America's cities. The essays are uniformly stimulating. The Bubbling Cauldron is a book to be added to reading lists for graduate students in race politics or urban studies." —Canadian Journal of Urban Research "In The Bubbling Cauldron, students of race and ethnic relations will find insightful essays and research articles on the dynamics of American race and ethnic relations and their complex connections to global processes." —Social Science Journal "In The Bubbling Cauldron, editors Smith and Feagin have refocused the scholarly discussion of race from its emphasis on primordialist and melting-pot theories to an understanding of race as a dynamic concept that involves processes of domination, resistance, and self-definition. The volume makes clear that as urbanites witness the globalization of the economy, they must also come to terms with the ever-increasing boundaries of racial and ethnic politics. Especially important in this regard are issues of immigration and political incorporation. Also important is the extent to which the contributors to Bubbling Cauldron transcend the archaic language of black-white race relations to discuss the complexity of ethnic-cum-racial relations." —Urban Affairs Review Contributors: Sophie Body-Gendrot, Harold Brackman, James Button, Sharon Collins, Steven P. Erie, Norman Fainstein, Cedric Herring, Michael Hodge, Leslie Baham Inniss, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Michael Kearney, Edward Murguia, Adolph Reed Jr., Nestor Rodríguez, Bernadette Tarallo, Roger Waldinger, and Howard Winant. Michael Peter Smith is professor of community studies and development at the University of California, Davis. Joe R. Feagin is graduate research professor in sociology at the University of Florida. 360 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1995 |
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$35.00 Paper