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The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

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ID19903094
AuthorsKaren Ferguson (0000-0002-2775-8159, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages336
Publication date2013-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTop Down (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.9783/9780812209037
OpenAlexW4254656542
Open LibraryOL28781362M
ISBN9780812209037
LanguageEN
Citations received32

Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of the counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the elite liberal Ford Foundation and black power activists, arguing that codeveloped initiatives in education, community development, and the arts contributed to the recreation of racial liberalism in the neo-conservative era and beyond

Counterintuitive · Elite · Epistemology · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Recreation · Sociology · The arts · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · African americans · Black power · Civil rights · Ford Foundation · History · Political aspects · race relations · united states

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Citation span2014 - 2026 (13)
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