I. PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES.
Introduction: Can Black and Latinos Achieve Power in City Government?
The Setting and the Issues.
1. Minority Mobilization in Ten Cities: Failure and Successes, Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb.
II. BIRACIAL COALITIONS.
2. Post Incorporation Politics in Los Angeles, Raphael J. Sonenshein.
3. After the First Black Mayor: Philadelphia's Biracial Coalition, Richard A. Keiser.
III. BARRIERS.
4. New York: The Great Anomaly, John H. Mollenkopf.
5. Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics, Dianne Pinderhughes.
6. Progressive Politics in the Left Coast City: San Francisco, Richard Deleon.
IV. CLASS AND LEADERSHIP IN THE SOUTH.
7. Atlanta and the Limited Reach of Electoral Control, Clarence Stone and Carol Pierannunzi.
8. The Evolution and Impact of Biracial Coalitions and Black Mayors in Birmingham and New Orleans, Huey L. Perry.
9. Electoral Control and Governing Coalitions: The Struggle for Black Empowerment in Baltimore, Marion Orr.
V. LATINOS.
10. Hispanic Incorporation and Structural Reform in Miami, Chris Warren.
11. Latinos and Politics in Denver and Pueble, Colorado: Differences, Explanations, and the Steady State of the Struggle for Equality, Rodney Hero.
VII. STRATEGIES AND PROSPECTS.
12. Biracial and Multiethnic Coalitions in Big Cities: Why They Succeed, Why They Fail, Raphael J. Sonenshein.
13. Officeholding and Coalitions: Achievements, Limitations, Prospects, Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb.
