Alyosha Goldstein

Poverty in Common

The Politics of Community Action During the American Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2012
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351672
• ISBN-10: 0822351676
• Artikelnr.: 34445725

Autorenporträt

Alyosha Goldstein

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: "Now, We're Our Own Government" 1
1. Freedom Between: Inequality and the Democracy of "Felt Needs" 31
2. On the Internal Border: Colonial Difference and the Locations of
Underdevelopment 77
3. The Civics and Civilities of Poverty: Participation, Policing, and the
Poor People's Campaign 111
4. The Surplus of Inclusion: Poverty, Pluralism, and the Politics of
Community 155
5. Thresholds of Opposition: Liberty, Liberation, and the Horizon of
Incrimination 199
Conclusion. A Peculiar Freedom: Community and Poverty, from New Federalism
to Neoliberalism 245
Notes 257
Bibliography 323
Index 357