Poverty in common : the politics of community action during the American century / Alyosha Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Alyosha.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community Action Program (U.S.)--History.

Community Action Program (U.S.).

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States--History--20th century.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Community development--United States--History--20th century.

Community development.

Social service--United States--History--20th century.

Social service.

Public welfare--United States--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Poverty--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Poverty.

United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work looks at inter-related post WWII case studies to analyze the ways in which different groups, mostly governmental agencies and emerging activist organizations, invoked the idea of ""community"" in anti-poverty initiatives during the late 1950s and 1960s.

Contents:

Introduction: Now, were our own government?

Freedom between: inequality and the democracy of felt needs

On the internal border: colonial difference and the locations of underdevelopment

The civics and civilities of poverty: participation, policing, and the poor peoples campaign

The surplus of inclusion: poverty, pluralism, and the politics of community

Thresholds of opposition: liberty, liberation, and the horizon of incrimination

Conclusion : peculiar freedom: community and poverty, from new Federalism to Neoliberalism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613523730

9781280119705

1280119705

9780822395010

0822395010

OCLC:

781461526