Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Ferguson, Karen
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Ferguson, Karen

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After...
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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Ferguson, Karen

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

$185.30
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Ferguson, Karen

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

$185.30
Author: Karen Ferguson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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At 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.

In Top Down, 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."



Author: Karen Ferguson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 06/27/2013
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812245264


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2014

About the Author
Karen Ferguson is Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University and author of Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta.
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