Impossible democracy: the unlikely success of the war on poverty community action programs
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Main Author: Cazenave, Noel A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany State University of New York Press c2007
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface -- Introduction: elite competition, community action, and democratic theory in the expansion of American democracy -- Professional turf battles in the planning of the mobilization for Youth Project -- Sufficiently vague: the Ford Foundation, social scientists, and their conceptualizations of community action -- Community action and Congressional intent: the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime -- The mobilization for youth proposal and the project's dispute with area school principals -- Challenging "social work colonialism" in Harlem: the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Associated Community Teams proposals and early project disputes -- The HARYOU-ACT and mobilization for youth project crises of 1964 -- Black protest and white backlash: the rise and fall of community action in the war on poverty -- Conclusion: the legacy of impossible democracy
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 264 p.)
ISBN:9781461904205
146190420X
9780791471593
0791471594
9780791471609
0791471608

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