Organizing Urban America

Organizing Urban America
Author :
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 334
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781452913421
ISBN-13 : 1452913420
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Organizing Urban America by : Heidi J. Swarts

Download or read book Organizing Urban America written by Heidi J. Swarts and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens’ rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has helped win living wage initiatives in more than 130 cities across the country. Likewise, congregation-based groups have established countless health, education, and other social programs at city and state levels. Despite modest budgets, these organizations—different in their approach, but at the same time working for social change—have won billions of dollars in redistributive programs. Looking closely at this phenomenon, Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groups’ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Jose, California, Swarts demonstrates that congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, combining democratic deliberation and leadership development to produce a “culture of commitment” among its cross-class, multiracial membership. By contrast, ACORN’s more homogeneous low-income class base has a national structure that allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly, and its seasoned staff excels in tactical innovations. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the United States. Heidi J. Swarts is assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University.


Organizing Urban America Related Books

Organizing Urban America
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Heidi J. Swarts
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens’ rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organiz
Organizing Urban America
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Heidi J. Swarts
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens’ rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organiz
Urban Action Networks
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Howard Lune
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Urban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being. As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of so
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Amy Sonnie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Melville House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The historians of the late 1960s have emphasised the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to
Learning about Urban Growth in America with Graphic Organizers
Language: en
Pages: 24
Authors: Linda Wirkner
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: PowerKids Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Graphic organizers in social studies, includes bibliographical references and index.