Reinventing Citizenship
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Author | : Kazuyo Tsuchiya |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452940851 |
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles and Koreans’ campaigns for welfare rights in Kawasaki. In working-class and poor neighborhoods in both locations, African Americans and Koreans sought not only to be recognized as citizens but also to become legitimate constituting members of communities. Local activists in Los Angeles and Kawasaki ardently challenged the welfare institutions. By creating opposition movements and voicing alternative visions of citizenship, African American leaders, Tsuchiya argues, turned Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty into a battle for equality. Koreans countered the city’s and the nation’s exclusionary policies and asserted their welfare rights. Tsuchiya’s work exemplifies transnational antiracist networking, showing how black religious leaders traveled to Japan to meet Christian Korean activists and to provide counsel for their own struggles. Reinventing Citizenship reveals how race and citizenship transform as they cross countries and continents. By documenting the interconnected histories of African Americans and Koreans in Japan, Tsuchiya enables us to rethink present ideas of community and belonging.
Author | : Kazuyo Tsuchiya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780816681112 |
Compares the construction of government welfare systems in Los Angeles and Kawasaki Japan with particular attention to their impact on African Americans and Koreans, and how members of those minority groups struggled to change their relationship with the government. Also touches on their relationship to each other, as African American religious leaders went to Kawasaki to meet with Korean religious leaders.
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Project Public Life |
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Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1994* |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : Harry C. Boyte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2013 |
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ISBN | : 9780923993511 |
"In recent years, calls for citizenship education have multiplied in response to widespread lack of civic and political knowledge and the degradation of public culture. Approaches to educating citizens come chiefly in two forms: improving civics education and increasing service and volunteerism. In this study for the Kettering Foundation, Harry Boyte examines how these two approaches fail to recognize the power of citizens in work and the workplace." --Kettering Foundation web site
Author | : Hindy L. Schachter |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780791431566 |
By analyzing a turn-of-the-century model of urban reform that depicts this relationship between citizens and government, Schachter shows how reinvigorating an active public is essential to increasing agency efficiency and responsiveness. She offers two strategies for moving toward active citizenship: better citizenship education, including service learning, and public agencies' provision of better-focused information for their owners.
Author | : Archon Fung |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2009-01-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400835631 |
Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer. Residents of poor neighborhoods participate as much or more as those from wealthy ones. All voices are heard. Since the meetings began more than a dozen years ago, they have led not only to safer streets but also to surprising improvements in the city's schools. Chicago's police department and school system have become democratic urban institutions unlike any others in America. Empowered Participation is the compelling chronicle of this unprecedented transformation. It is the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. Using city-wide data and six neighborhood case studies, the book explores how determined Chicago residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups worked to banish crime and transform a failing city school system into a model for educational reform. The author's conclusion: Properly designed and implemented institutions of participatory democratic governance can spark citizen involvement that in turn generates innovative problem-solving and public action. Their participation makes organizations more fair and effective. Though the book focuses on Chicago's municipal agencies, its lessons are applicable to many American cities. Its findings will prove useful not only in the fields of education and law enforcement, but also to sectors as diverse as environmental regulation, social service provision, and workforce development.
Author | : Derek Heater |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2004-09-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780719068416 |
Citizenship describes, analyzes and interprets the topic of citizenship in a global context as it has developed historically, in its variations as a political concept and status, and the ways in which citizens have been and are being educated for that status. The book provides a historical survey which ranges from the Ancient Greeks to the twentieth century, and reveals the legacies which each era passed on to later centuries. It explains the meaning of citizenship, what political citizenship entails and the nature of citizenship as a status, and also tackles the issue of whether there can be a generally accepted, holistic understanding of the idea. For this new edition an epilogue has been written which demonstrates the intense nature of the academic and pedagogical debates on the subject as well as the practical matters relating to the status since 1990.
Author | : Roscoe Lewis Ashley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : Carmen Sirianni |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815703120 |
"Discusses how government can serve as a partner and catalyst for collaborative problem solving. Details three success stories and explains what measures were taken and why they succeeded. Distills eight core design principles that characterize effectivecollaborative governance and concludes with concrete recommendations for federal policy"--Provided by publisher.