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.