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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cazenave, Noel A., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community Action Program (U.S.).

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

United States.

Community development--United States.

Community development.

Community organization--United States.

Community organization.

Social action--United States.

Social action.

Physical Description:

xvii, 264 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protest-based community reform.

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

Methodological appendix

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780791471593

0791471594

OCLC:

71947905