Organizing urban America : secular and faith-based progressive movements

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

Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groups cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations, Swarts demonstrates how congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, and how ACORNs national structure allows it to coordina...

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Main Author: Swarts, Heidi J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Social movements, protest, and contention ; 28.
Subjects:
ACORN (Organization)
Community organization > United States > Case studies.
Community development, Urban > United States.
Urban renewal > United States > Citizen participation.
Religion and politics > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Community development, Urban
Community organization
Religion and politics
Urban renewal > Citizen participation
Sociale bewegingen.
Religieuze aspecten.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Invisible actors : community organizing, agenda setting, and American social movements
  • Different mobilizing cultures : congregation-based organizing and ACORN
  • Religion and progressive politics : Church-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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