Impossible Democracy
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Impossible Democracy

The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Impossible Democracy

The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs

About this book

Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protestā€“based community reform.

Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America

Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom that the War on Poverty failed, by exploring the unlikely success of its community action programs. Using two projects in Manhattan that were influential precursors of community action programs-the Mobilization for Youth and the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Teams-Noel A. Cazenave analyzes national and local conflicts in the 1960s over what the nature of community action should be. Fueled by the civil rights movement, activist social scientists promoted a model of community action that allowed for the use of social protest as an instrument of local reform. In addition, they advanced a more participatory view of how democracy should work, one that insisted local decision making not be left solely to elected officials and other powerful people, as traditionally done.

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Table of contents

  1. IMPOSSIBLE DEMOCRACY
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. INTRODUCTION: Elite Competition, Community Action,and Democratic Theory in the Expansion of American Democracy
  6. 1. Professional Turf Battles in the Planning of the Mobilization for Youth Project
  7. 2. Sufficiently Vague: The Ford Foundation, Social Scientists,and Their Conceptualizations of Community Action
  8. 3. Community Action and Congressional Intent: The Presidentā€™s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime
  9. 4. The Mobilization for Youth Proposal and the Projectā€™s Dispute with Area School Principals
  10. 5. Challenging ā€œSocial Work Colonialismā€ in Harlem: The Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Associated Community Teams Proposals and Early Project Disputes
  11. 6. The HARYOU-ACT and Mobilization for Youth Project Crises of 1964
  12. 7. Black Protest and White Backlash: The Rise and Fall of Community Action in the War on Poverty
  13. CONCLUSION: The Legacy of Impossible Democracy
  14. Methodological Appendix
  15. Notes
  16. Index