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UNINA9910787526503321 |
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Autore |
Ferguson Karen (Karen Jane) |
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Titolo |
Top down [[electronic resource] ] : the Ford Foundation, black power, and the reinvention of racial liberalism / / Karen Ferguson |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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Politics and Culture in Modern America |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Black power - United States - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century |
Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century |
United States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-311) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Sizing Up the Urban Crisis -- Chapter 1. Modernizing Migrants -- Chapter 2. The Social Development Solution -- PART II. Transforming the Ghetto -- Chapter 3. Developmental Separatism and Community Control -- Chapter 4. Black Power and the End of Community Action -- PART III. Cultivating Leadership -- Chapter 5. Multiculturalism from Above -- Chapter 6. The Best and the Brightest -- Epilogue: The Diminishing Expectations of Racial Liberalism -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president McGeorge Bundy chose to engage rather than confront black power's challenge to racial liberalism through an ambitious, long-term strategy to foster the "social development" of racial minorities. The Ford Foundation not only bankrolled but originated many of the black power era's hallmark legacies: community |
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