Top Down - The Ford Foundation, Black Power, Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

Karen Ferguson is Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University and author of Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta.

List of 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

About the author

Karen Ferguson is Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University and author of Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta.

Summary

Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of the counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the elite liberal Ford Foundation and black power activists, arguing that codeveloped initiatives in education, community development, and the arts contributed to the recreation of racial liberalism in the neo-conservative era and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Ferguson
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2013
• EAN: 9780812245264
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4526-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous