LEADER 04461nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910812186203321 005 20211216222047.0 010 $a0-8122-0903-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209037 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418301 035 $a(OCoLC)857878951 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748615 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036545 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11574543 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036545 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041945 035 $a(PQKB)10202935 035 $a(OCoLC)867739299 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27236 035 $a(DE-B1597)449745 035 $a(OCoLC)979628398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209037 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442183 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748615 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682559 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442183 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418301 100 $a20121203d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTop down$b[electronic resource] $ethe Ford Foundation, black power, and the reinvention of racial liberalism /$fKaren Ferguson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51277-9 311 0 $a0-8122-4526-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [371]-311) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPART I. Sizing Up the Urban Crisis --$tChapter 1. Modernizing Migrants --$tChapter 2. The Social Development Solution --$tPART II. Transforming the Ghetto --$tChapter 3. Developmental Separatism and Community Control --$tChapter 4. Black Power and the End of Community Action --$tPART III. Cultivating Leadership --$tChapter 5. Multiculturalism from Above --$tChapter 6. The Best and the Brightest --$tEpilogue: The Diminishing Expectations of Racial Liberalism --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAt first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president McGeorge Bundy chose to engage rather than confront black power's challenge to racial liberalism through an ambitious, long-term strategy to foster the "social development" of racial minorities. The Ford Foundation not only bankrolled but originated many of the black power era's hallmark legacies: community control of public schools, ghetto-based economic development initiatives, and race-specific arts and cultural organizations .In Top Down, Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of this counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the liberal establishment and black activists and their ideas. In essence, the white liberal effort to reforge a national consensus on race had the effect of remaking racial liberalism from the top down-a domestication of black power ideology that still flourishes in current racial politics. Ultimately, this new racial liberalism would help foster a black leadership class-including Barack Obama-while accommodating the intractable inequality that first drew the Ford Foundation to address the "race problem." 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aBlack power$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAfrican-American Studies. 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aBlack power$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 676 $a305.896/073 700 $aFerguson$b Karen$g(Karen Jane)$01633853 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812186203321 996 $aTop down$93973818 997 $aUNINA