Poverty in Common
The Politics of Community Action during the American Century
1st Edition
Published on 23. March 2012
392 pages
978-0-8223-9501-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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Alyosha Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Content
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
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
