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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Karen Ferguson, Karen Ferguson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 challe

Who reads Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism (Politics and Culture in Modern America)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Karen Ferguson, Karen Ferguson
Publisher
Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2) : University of Pennsylvania Press
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780812245264
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Social Science, Sociology
Updated
2026-03-25

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