Unsettling the Geography of Oakland's War on Poverty
Mexican American Political Organizations and the Decoupling of Poverty and Blackness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2135391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Carlos Herrera (0000-0003-2466-5085, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 375-393 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1742058x12000197 |
| OpenAlex | W2091773562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
Historical studies of the War on Poverty have overwhelmingly focused on its consequences in African American communities. Many studies have grappled with how War on Poverty innovations co-opted a thriving African American social movement. This paper explores the impact of War on Poverty programs on the development of a political cadre of Mexican American grassroots leaders in Oakland, California. It investigates how coordinated 1960s protests by Mexican American organizations reveal Oakland's changing racial/ethnic conditions and shifting trends in the state's relationship to the urban poor. It demonstrates how a national shift to place-based solutions to poverty devolved the "problem of poverty" from the national to the local level and empowered a new set of actors-community-based organizations-in the fight against poverty. This essay argues that the devolution of federal responsibility for welfare provided the political and institutional opening for the rise of powerful Mexican American organizations whose goal was the recognition of a "Mexican American community" meriting government intervention. This essay also demonstrates how Mexican American organizations mobilized in relation to African American social movements and to geographies of poverty that were deemed exclusively Black
Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Grassroots · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Thriving · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |