Human Relations Commissions : : Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City /

Human Relations Commissions : : Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City / / Brian Calfano, Valerie Martinez-Ebers.

During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing cities—such as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; tense community-police relations; and underrepresentation of minority groups—local governments developed an interest in “human relations.” In the wake o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Martinez-Ebers, Valerie,
Calfano, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2019
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: TOO BIG A TASK?
  • 1. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSIONS: CREATIVITY IN CONSTRAINT
  • 2. THE HISTORY OF INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN AMERICA
  • 3. ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIZED HUMAN RELATIONS EFFORTS
  • 4. THE HUMANS WHO MUST RELATE
  • 5. EXPERIMENTING WITH THE DYNAMICS OF INTERGROUP IDENTITY
  • 6. REPORTING AND RESPONDING TO COMMUNITY
  • 7. IMAGINING HUMAN RELATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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