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Organizing urban America : secular and faith-based progressive movements / Heidi J. Swarts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swarts, Heidi J.
- Series:
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 28.
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community organization--United States--Case studies.
- Community organization.
- Community development, Urban--United States.
- Community development, Urban.
- Urban renewal--United States--Citizen participation.
- Urban renewal.
- Religion and politics--United States.
- Religion and politics.
- ACORN (Organization).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groupsÕ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations, Swarts demonstrates how congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, and how ACORNÕs national structure allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Invisible actors : community organizing, agenda setting, and American social movements
- Different mobilizing cultures : congregation-based organizing and ACORN
- Religion and progressive politics : congregation-based Community Organizing's innovative cultural strategy
- Experimenting with national organizing campaigns : ACORN's innovative political strategy
- Organizing is a numbers game : St. Louis ACORN
- A seat at the regional table : Metropolitan Congregations United for St. Louis
- La puebla unida : ACORN in the Sunbelt
- The power is in the relationship : San Jose PACT
- The results of organizing
- American inequality and the potential of community organizing.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5384-4
- OCLC:
- 476140775
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