Top down: the Ford Foundation, black power, and the reinvention of racial liberalism

Part I. Sizing Up The Urban Crisis -- Chapter 1. Modernizing Migrants -- Chapter 2. The Social Development Solution -- Part II. Transforming The Ghetto -- Chapter 3. Developmental Separatism and Community Control -- Chapter 4. Black Power and the End of Community Action -- Part III. Cultivating LEADERSHIP -- Chapter 5. Multiculturalism from Above -- Chapter 6. The Best and the Brightest -- Epilogue. The Diminishing Expectations of Racial Liberalism

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.

Main description: 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.