Recasting the Community Action Program The Pursuit of Race, Class, and Gender Equality in Los Angeles

With the establishment of the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles (EYOA), the War on Poverty officially began. In this chapter, I examine how local activists in South Central Los Angeles turned the concept of “maximum feasible participation” into a weapon in the battle for...

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Published inReinventing Citizenship p. 81
Main Author Tsuchiya, Kazuyo
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 15.04.2014
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Armed conflict
Behavioral sciences
Child care
Communities
Community action
Community participation
Earth sciences
Economic disciplines
Economics
Families
Geology
Government
Government services
Human geography
Human populations
Human societies
Military science
Mineralogy
Minerals
Mothers
Neighborhoods
Opal
Parenting
Persons
Physical sciences
Political science
Population studies
Poverty
Public assistance
Public assistance programs
Retirement communities
Silicate minerals
Social geography
Social groups
Social institutions
Social sciences
Socioeconomics
Sociology
War
Women
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Summary:With the establishment of the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles (EYOA), the War on Poverty officially began. In this chapter, I examine how local activists in South Central Los Angeles turned the concept of “maximum feasible participation” into a weapon in the battle for welfare rights. They forcefully challenged the official local/federal antipoverty institutions—EYOA and the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)—and created oppositional discourses that could work against them. In the first section, I focus on one of the major antipoverty programs in Los Angeles: the Neighborhood Adult Participation Project (NAPP). NAPP was funded
ISBN:0816681120
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