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Peace Corps fantasies : how development shaped the global sixties /
To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was "the toughest job you'll ever love." In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy's presidency. But in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Critical American studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the seductive culture of development
- Fantasies of brotherhood: modernization theory and the making of the Peace Corps
- Integration and its limits: from romantic racism to peace corps authenticity
- Breaking the bonds: decolonization, domesticity, and the Peace Corps girl
- Bringing the Peace Corps home: development in the Black freedom movement
- Ambiguous liberation : the Vietnam War and the committee of returned volunteers
- The Peace Corps, population control, and cultural nationalist resistance in 1960s Bolivia
- Conclusion : heroic development in an age of decline.