Peste 4 milioane de titluri în engleză și alte limbi! Descoperă-ți noua poveste astăzi!

Află starea comenzii

Contactați-ne

Now Is the Time!

Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism

Autor: Todd Cameron Shaw

Limbă:

Legare: Carte broșată

Editura: Duke University Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 9-15 zile

199.99 lei

"Now Is the Time!" delves into the political strategies of post-Civil Rights Movement African Americ...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Todd Cameron Shaw

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2009

Pagini

304

EAN

9780822345084

ISBN

0822345080

Enbook ID

04938974

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

438

Dimensiuni

156 x 233 x 19

Descriere completă

"Now Is the Time!" delves into the political strategies of post-Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots community housing initiatives to revitalize Detroit's failing urban centre and aid its impoverished population, Todd C. Shaw seeks to understand why certain collective actions have far-reaching effects while others fail to yield positive results. He emerges with EBAM (Effective Black Activism Model), a detailed political model that illuminates crucial elements of successful grassroots activism: strong alliances, strategic advantages, and adaptive techniques. EBAM shows that political action must happen at the right time, in the right place, and with the right tactic, to be effective. Shaw employs the tools of social movement analysis, including qualitative analysis of budgets, electoral data, and housing statistics, as well as historical research and personal interviews, to better understand the dilemmas, innovations, and dynamics of grassroots activism. He begins with a history of discriminatory housing practices and racial divisions that deeply affected post-World War II Detroit and set the stage for the election of Detroit's first black mayor, Coleman Young. By emphasizing downtown redevelopment, Mayor Young's administration often collided with low-income housing advocates. Only through grassroots activism were those advocates able to delay or derail governmental efforts to demolish low-income housing to make way for up-scale development. Shaw then looks at present-day public housing activism, assessing the mixed success of the nationally sponsored HOPE VI project aimed at fostering home ownership in low-income areas. Descriptive and prescriptive, "Now Is the Time!" traces the complicated legacy of community activism to illuminate what is required for grassroots activists to be effective in demanding public accountability to poor and marginalized citizens.

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Now Is the Time!

Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Attack in the West 1940

Machine Learning Support for Fault Diagnosis of System-on-Chip

Abortion--Analyzing Old and New Arguments

Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch

Business Basics for Private Practice

Hell's Spells

Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

Mind Control

Dr Seuss's ABC, 1 Audio-CD and Book

Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards

Cupid's Romance Coupons

Dixon Phill & Jones Chris Riff Notes Electric Guitar Basics Gtr Book

52 Activities for Exploring Values Differences

Forever Red

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Día y noche

Rymowanki polskie Przysłowia dla dzieci

Riešenie každodenných konfliktov