Description: Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in promoting positive intergroup outcomes and enforcing antidiscrimination laws. Drawing on a wide range of theories and methods, they assess policy approaches, successes, and failures in four cities.
Brief description:
Valerie Martinez-Ebers is the University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science
at the University of North Texas. She is a former Vice President of the American Political Science
Association and a former President of the Western Political Science Association. From 2012 to
2016 she served as co-editor of the American Political Science Review, the flagship journal in
political science. She is co-author of
Politicas: Latina Public Officials in Texas (Texas, 2008); Latino Lives in America: Making it Home
(Temple, 2010) and Latinos in the New Millennium: an Almanac of Opinion, Behavior and Policy
Preferences (Cambridge, 2012).
Review Quotes: Filling a canyon-like void in political science, urban studies, policy and administration, and more, Human Relations Commissions opens a whole new world to the relationship of HRCs and municipal governments. The synthesis of the authors' varied methodologies and research orientations has created a fascinating book.--John Bretting, University of Texas at El Paso