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The Fixers
Julia Rabig
其他書名
Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2016-09-28
主題
History / General
History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
History / African American & Black
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Political Science / American Government / Local
Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
022638831X
9780226388311
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l2kpDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.