African-American mayors : race, politics, and the American city / edited by David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Running for office : African-American mayors from 1967 to 1996 / David R. Colburn -- Black political power and its limits : Gary Mayor Richard G. Hatcher's administration, 1968-87 / James B. Lane -- Carl Stokes : Mayor of Cleveland / Leonard N. Moore -- Harold and Dutch revisited : a comparative look at the first black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Mayor David Dinkins and the politics of race in New York City / Roger Biles -- Tom Bradley and the politics of race / Heather R. Parker -- African-American mayors and governance in Atlanta / Ronald H. Bayor -- Protest and power in Washington, D.C. : the troubled legacy of Marion Barry / Howard Gillette, Jr. -- Rethinking the collapse of postwar liberalism : the rise of Mayor Coleman Young and the politics of race in Detroit / Heather Ann Thompson.