04461nam 2200745Ia 450 991081218620332120211216222047.00-8122-0903-610.9783/9780812209037(CKB)2670000000418301(OCoLC)857878951(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748615(SSID)ssj0001036545(PQKBManifestationID)11574543(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036545(PQKBWorkID)11041945(PQKB)10202935(OCoLC)867739299(MdBmJHUP)muse27236(DE-B1597)449745(OCoLC)979628398(DE-B1597)9780812209037(Au-PeEL)EBL3442183(CaPaEBR)ebr10748615(CaONFJC)MIL682559(MiAaPQ)EBC3442183(EXLCZ)99267000000041830120121203d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTop down[electronic resource] the Ford Foundation, black power, and the reinvention of racial liberalism /Karen Ferguson1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20131 online resource (336 p.)Politics and Culture in Modern AmericaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51277-9 0-8122-4526-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-311) and index.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 --AcknowledgmentsAt 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 control of public schools, ghetto-based economic development initiatives, and race-specific arts and cultural organizations .In Top Down, Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of this counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the liberal establishment and black activists and their ideas. In essence, the white liberal effort to reforge a national consensus on race had the effect of remaking racial liberalism from the top down-a domestication of black power ideology that still flourishes in current racial politics. Ultimately, this new racial liberalism would help foster a black leadership class-including Barack Obama-while accommodating the intractable inequality that first drew the Ford Foundation to address the "race problem."Politics and culture in modern America.Black powerUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryLiberalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsHistory20th centuryAfrican Studies.African-American Studies.American History.American Studies.Black powerHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryLiberalismHistory305.896/073Ferguson Karen(Karen Jane)1633853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812186203321Top down3973818UNINA