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African Americans in New York City
AIDS activism in New York City
AIDS and the Roman Catholic Church
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP New York)
anti-abortion activism and the religious right
anticommunism and New York City
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black arts movement in New York City
Cardinal John O'Connor
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Church Ladies for Choice
civil rights movement in New York City
community organizing and New York City
consciousness-raising in the women's liberation movement
deindustrialization and gentrification
East Village and queer activism
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feminism in New York City
Frances Fox Piven
gay men and AIDS
gay men and feminism
Helen Hall
Henry Street Settlement House and youth gangs
History of New York City
juvenile delinquency and Ford Foundation
legal services movement
Lloyd Ohlin
Lower East Side
Mobilization for Youth
National Congress of Neighborhood Women
neighborhood movement and women
political art and AIDS activism
public education and New York City
public housing and New York City
public housing and tenants' unions
Puerto Ricans in New York City
queer activism in New York City
queer artwork and the culture wars
racial segregation and New York City
rent strikes and New York City
reproductive rights activism in New York City
Richard Cloward
school boycotts and New York City
social movements and New York City
street theater and AIDS activism
War on Poverty and Community Action Programs
War on Poverty and maximum feasible participation
welfare rights movement
white ethnic movement and women
WilliamsburgGreenpoint Brooklyn
Women's Health Action Mobilization (WHAM!)
working-class women and feminism
Product details
- ISBN 9781469619880
- Weight: 468g
- Dimensions: 153 x 243mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2015
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post–World War II New York City, Carroll shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organization Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty. Highlighting the little-known National Congress of Neighborhood Women, she reveals the significant participation of working-class white ethnic women and women of color in New York City's feminist activism. Finally, Carroll traces the partnership between the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Women's Health Action Mobilization (WHAM!), showing how gay men and feminists collaborated to create a supportive community for those affected by the AIDS epidemic, to improve health care, and to oppose homophobia and misogyny during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Carroll contends that social policies that encourage the political mobilization of marginalized groups and foster coalitions across identity differences are the most effective means of solving social problems and realizing democracy.
Tamar W. Carroll is assistant professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
