Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City
Mark Santow, "Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City"
English | ISBN: 0226826279 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0226826279 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race.
Saul Alinsky is the most famous—even infamous—community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations, which used the power of a neighborhood’s residents to define and fight for their own interests. Across a long and controversial career spanning more than three decades, Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundation organized Eastern European meatpackers in Chicago, Kansas City, Buffalo, and St. Paul; Mexican Americans in California and Arizona; white middle-class homeowners on the edge of Chicago’s South Side black ghetto; and African Americans in Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, and other cities.
Mark Santow focuses on Alinsky’s attempts to grapple with the biggest moral dilemma of his age: race. As Santow shows, Alinsky was one of the few activists of the period to take on issues of race on paper
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