附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-332) and index.
Part 1: Black Atlantic politics -- Chapter 1: The Black Atlantic: race and local politics -- Chapter 2: Boston and Liverpool: a tale of two cities -- Part 2: Black politics in Boston -- Chapter 3: Boston: city governance and black political empowerment -- Chapter 4: Black political linkage: the search for alternative sources of power -- Chapter 5: Boston: strategic dimensions of black politics -- Chapter 6: Resource mobilization and black political linkage -- Part 3: Black politics in Liverpool -- Chapter 7: Liverpool: local governance and black political empowerment -- Chapter 8: The Toxteth riots and the race policy agenda -- Chapter 9: Liverpool: political strategies and political empowerment -- Chapter 10: Linkage politics and political resources -- Part 4: Comparative racial politics -- Chapter 11: Boston and Liverpool: the comparative context of black politics.