LEADER 05200nam 22007575 450 001 9910464118703321 005 20210205022455.0 010 $a1-283-89097-6 010 $a0-8122-0460-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204605 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064703 035 $a(EBL)3441744 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810638 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12349342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810638 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833577 035 $a(PQKB)10824247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606260 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11406083 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606260 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581545 035 $a(PQKB)11405096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441744 035 $a(OCoLC)793012541 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8293 035 $a(DE-B1597)449372 035 $a(OCoLC)1013951883 035 $a(OCoLC)979904792 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204605 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064703 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor /$fCatherine M. Paden 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-2267-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Anti-Poverty as a Civil Rights Issue? --$tChapter 2. Assessing and Explaining Shifts in Organizational Priorities --$tChapter 3. Civil Rights Organizations and the War on Poverty --$tChapter 4. Civil Rights Organizations' Anti-Poverty Activities During the Late 1960's and Early 1970's --$tChapter 5. Explaining Priority Shifts During the 1960's --$tChapter 6. Explaining Priority Shifts During the Early 1970's --$tChapter 7. Recent Battles, Recent Challenges --$tChapter 8. Conclusions --$tAppendix A. Archival Research and Coding --$tAppendix B. Magnitude of Shifts in Organizational Attention to Anti-Poverty Policy --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tNotes to Figure Sources --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aRepresentation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy. Scholars have argued that the activities and ideologies of civil rights groups have functioned with a distinct middle-class bias since well before the 1960's civil rights movement. Additionally, all political organizations face disincentives to represent the poor-such advocacy is expensive and politically unpopular, and often involves trade-offs with other issues that are more central to organizations' missions. In Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor, Catherine M. Paden examines five civil rights organizations and explores why they chose to represent the poor-specifically low-income African Americans-during six legislative periods considering welfare reform. Paden's archival research into groups such as NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and her extensive interviews with movement leaders and activists reveal that national organizations advocate on behalf of the poor when they have incentives to do so. Organizational decisions to represent the poor are sometimes strategic, sometimes based on an ideological commitment, and sometimes both. However, Paden points out that decisions are never purely ideological-groups are always aware of strategy and of their positions within their issue niche when they fix their priorities. Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor also points to the critical role that radical organizations play in increasing representation in the U.S. political system. Paden maintains that radical groups matter not because their representation affects long-term policy change or is particularly effective in representing the interest of marginal groups. Rather, she argues, it is because they compete with more mainstream or conservative organizations for their constituencies. 410 0$aAmerican governance. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xSocieties, etc$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial advocacy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoor$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoor African Americans$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xSocieties, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aSocial advocacy$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aPoor$xHistory 615 0$aPoor African Americans$xHistory 676 $a323.1196073 700 $aPaden$b Catherine M.$01037343 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464118703321 996 $aCivil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor$92458258 997 $aUNINA