{"product_id":"top-down-the-ford-foundation-black-power-and-the-reinvention-of-racial-liberalism-hardback-9780812245264","title":"Top Down; The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism (Hardback) 9780812245264","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTop Down\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKaren Ferguson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812245264\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 June 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 15 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.672 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Vigorously argued and thoroughly grounded in research from the extensive Ford Foundation archives, this important book carefully traces the roots of the Foundation's 'developmental separatism' as well as the evolving contours of social and political thought within the black public sphere, effectively putting the two forms of separatism in dialogue with one another.\" (Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara) \"Karen Ferguson's \u003ci\u003eTop Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and often brilliant history of the single most important philanthropic institution in the long civil rights era. The Ford Foundation and similar philanthropies, she argues compellingly, shaped Black Power and other radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s.\" (Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president McGeorge Bundy chose to engage rather than confront black power's challenge to racial liberalism through an ambitious, long-term strategy to foster the \"social development\" of racial minorities. The Ford Foundation not only bankrolled but originated many of the black power era's hallmark legacies: community control of public schools, ghetto-based economic development initiatives, and race-specific arts and cultural organizations.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTop Down\u003c\/i\u003e, Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of this counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the liberal establishment and black activists and their ideas. In essence, the white liberal effort to reforge a national consensus on race had the effect of remaking racial liberalism from the top down-a domestication of black power ideology that still flourishes in current racial politics. Ultimately, this new racial liberalism would help foster a black leadership class-including Barack Obama-while accommodating the intractable inequality that first drew the Ford Foundation to address the \"race problem.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. SIZING UP THE URBAN CRISIS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Modernizing Migrants\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Social Development Solution\u003cbr\u003e PART II. TRANSFORMING THE GHETTO\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Developmental Separatism and Community Control\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Black Power and the End of Community Action\u003cbr\u003e PART III. CULTIVATING LEADERSHIP\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Multiculturalism from Above\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Best and the Brightest\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Diminishing Expectations of Racial Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555717574936,"sku":"9780812245264","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/top-down-the-ford-foundation-black-power-and-the-reinvention-of-racial-liberalism-hardback-9780812245264","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}