Peace Corps fantasies : how development shaped the global sixties /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geidel, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
Peace Corps (U.S.)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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