Research Catalog

Title

Impossible democracy : the unlikely success of the war on poverty community action programs / Noel A. Cazenave.

Author

Cazenave, Noel A., 1948-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

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Description

xvii, 264 p. : map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Community Action Program (U.S.)
• Economic assistance, Domestic > United States
• Community development > United States
• Community organization > United States
• Social action > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: elite competition, community action, and democratic theory in the expansion of American democracy -- Professional turf battles in the planning of the mobilization for Youth Project -- Sufficiently vague: the Ford Foundation, social scientists, and their conceptualizations of community action -- Community action and Congressional intent: the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime -- The mobilization for youth proposal and the project's dispute with area school principals -- Challenging "social work colonialism" in Harlem: the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Associated Community Teams proposals and early project disputes -- The HARYOU-ACT and mobilization for youth project crises of 1964 -- Black protest and white backlash: the rise and fall of community action in the war on poverty -- Conclusion: the legacy of impossible democracy.

Call Number

JFE 07-6244

ISBN

• 9780791471593 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0791471594 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006032530

OCLC

71947905

Author

Cazenave, Noel A., 1948-

Title

Impossible democracy : the unlikely success of the war on poverty community action programs / Noel A. Cazenave.

Imprint

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1825

JFE 07-6244