Peace Corps fantasies : how development shaped the global sixties / Molly Geidel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geidel, Molly, author.

Series:

Critical American studies series.

Critical American Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace Corps (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, England : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Summary:

To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was "the toughest job you'll ever love." In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy's presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960's Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency's representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.In the 1960's, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Seductive Culture of Development; 1. Fantasies of Brotherhood: Modernization Theory and the Making of the Peace Corps; 2. Integration and Its Limits: From Romantic Racism to Peace Corps Authenticity; 3. Breaking the Bonds: Decolonization, Domesticity, and the Peace Corps Girl; 4. Bringing the Peace Corps Home: Development in the Black Freedom Movement; 5. Ambiguous Liberation: The Vietnam War and the Committee of Returned Volunteers; 6. The Peace Corps, Population Control, and Cultural Nationalist Resistance in 1960's Bolivia

CONCLUSION: Heroic Development in an Age of Decline ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4527-6

OCLC:

917889444