Impossible democracy : the unlikely success of the war on poverty community action programs /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cazenave, Noel A., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Community Action Program (U.S.)
Economic assistance, Domestic > United States.
Community development > United States.
Community organization > United States.
Social action > United States.
Organisation communautaire > États-Unis.
Action sociale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Community development.
Community organization.
Economic assistance, Domestic.
Social action.
Sozialarbeit
Armut
Bekämpfung
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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