Poverty in Common
The Politics of Community Action during the American Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5706494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Frost (0000-0002-9088-5062, University of Auckland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1280-1281 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jas523 |
| OpenAlex | W2319079136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
With this book, Alyosha Goldstein contributes to a wave of literature on the War on Poverty as its fiftieth anniversary nears. He focuses on the most studied aspect of the war—community action, with its call for the “maximum feasible participation” of the poor—yet presents innovative and enlightening angles of vision (p. 8). This densely written book is less a narrative of community action than a series of case studies that range across diverse populations (including African Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and whites); across space (from large metropolitan areas such as New York City and Chicago to small towns in central Appalachia and northern New Mexico); and across time, although concentrated in the 1960s. Goldstein brings a multiplicity of theories, concepts, and categories of analysis to each case study as he interrogates and explores “the deployment of poverty as a field for political action and the constitution of community as the horizon of political transformation” (p. 25
Archaeology · Denial · Development economics · Economics · Metropolitan area · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Tea party · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |