Organizing urban America : secular and faith-based progressive movements / Heidi J. Swarts

Author: Swarts, Heidi J.
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Copyright Date: ©2008
Physical Description: xxxii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 28.

Contents

Introduction. Invisible actors : community organizing, agenda setting, and American social movements -- Different mobilizing cultures : congregation-based organizing and ACORN -- Religion and progressive politics : congregation-based Community Organizing's innovative cultural strategy -- Experimenting with national organizing campaigns : ACORN's innovative political strategy -- Organizing is a numbers game : St. Louis ACORN -- A seat at the regional table : Metropolitan Congregations United for St. Louis -- La puebla unida : ACORN in the Sunbelt -- The power is in the relationship : San Jose PACT -- The results of organizing -- American inequality and the potential of community organizing.

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ISBN

9780816648382 (hc : alk. paper)
0816648387 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816648399 (pb : alk. paper)
0816648395 (pb : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.

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