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The Fixers

- Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990
Af: Julia Rabig Engelsk Hardback

The Fixers

- Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990
Af: Julia Rabig Engelsk Hardback
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Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of low-income housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the "fixers" we meet people who devised ways to work with limited resources and pull together the threads of a patchwork welfare state. Rabig argues that fixers play dual roles. They support resistance, but also mediation; they fight for reform, but also more radical and far-reaching alternatives; they rally others to a collective cause, but sometimes they broker factions. Fixers reflect longer traditions of organizing while responding to the demands of their times. In so doing, they end up fixing (like a fixative) a new and enduring pattern of activist strategies, reforms, and institutional expectations a pattern we continue to see today.
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Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of low-income housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the "fixers" we meet people who devised ways to work with limited resources and pull together the threads of a patchwork welfare state. Rabig argues that fixers play dual roles. They support resistance, but also mediation; they fight for reform, but also more radical and far-reaching alternatives; they rally others to a collective cause, but sometimes they broker factions. Fixers reflect longer traditions of organizing while responding to the demands of their times. In so doing, they end up fixing (like a fixative) a new and enduring pattern of activist strategies, reforms, and institutional expectations a pattern we continue to see today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226388311
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022638831X
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 28 sep 2016
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 239mm
Højde: 166mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 28 sep 2016
Forfatter(e): Julia Rabig
Forfatter(e) Julia Rabig

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780226388311

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 239mm

Højde 166mm

Udg. Dato 28 sep 2016

Oplagsdato 28 sep 2016

Forlag The University of Chicago Press