Citizen solution: How you can make a difference

Citizen Solution: How You Can Make a Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-210

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1. Jonathan Sacks, The Politics of Hope (London: Vintage, 2000), 47, xix.
2. David Frum, "Building a Coalition, Forgetting to Rule," New York Times, Aug. 14, 2007.
3. Adam Nagourney, "Legacy Laden with Protégés," New York Times, Aug. 14, 2007.
4. Richard Stengel, "A Time to Serve," Time magazine cover story, Sept. 10, 2007, p. 51.
5. Kelly Heskett, "Myself as a Citizen," quoted by Victor Bloomfield, Public Engagement Blog, May 19, 2007, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ victor/publicengagement.
6. Manning Marable, "Black History and the Vision of Democracy," in The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment, ed. Harry C. Boyte and Frank Riessman (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 202-3.
7. Harry C. Boyte and Nan Kari, "Unsung Heroes," New Democrat (July-Aug. 1997): 13-17
8. "Taking the Public Out of Public Art," Wall Street Journal, Aug. 6, 1997.
9. Richard C. Harwood, "The Nation's Looking Glass," Kettering Review (Spring 2000): 15-16, 7-8.
10. Dean Mohs, Celebrating and Encouraging Community Involvement of OlderMinnesotans: A Snapshot of Current Minnesota Baby Boomers and Older Adults. Minnesota Board of Aging, report in author's possession, Apr. 2000, p. 3, 6.
11. Joan Didion, Political Fictions (New York: Knopf, 2001), 28, 279, 253-54.
12. Donna Shalala, David Dodds Henry Lecture at University of Illinois, 1989, transcript in author's possession.
13. Email correspondence, Dec. 11, 2007.
14. Harry C. Boyte, "The Struggle against Positivism," Academe 86:4 (Aug. 2000), online at http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2000/JA/Feat/ Boyt.htm.
15. Hubert Humphrey, Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976).
16. Thomas Bender, Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
17. Drawn from Harry Boyte, Civic Engagement News #11, electronic newsletter of the Council on Public Engagement, 2004;
18. David Brooks, "The Next Culture War," New York Times, June 12, 2007.
19. Jim Gambone and Erica Whittlinger, The Seventy-Five Percent Factor:Uncovering Hidden Boomer Values, 2002 study, on the Web at www.refirement com/pages/executivesummarypage.html;
20. Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 23, 1977;
21. Harry C. Boyte, The Backyard Revolution: Understanding the New Citizen Movement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980).
22. These trends are documented on the Community Wealth website, www .community-wealth.org;
23. Gar Alperovitz, "The Wealth of Neighborhoods," Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (Summer 2006): 19-32.
24. This history is taken from the Citizens League website, http://www.citizensleague.org, accessed July 18, 2007.
25. From the Citizens League MAP 150 description, www.citizensleague.org, accessed July 18, 2007.
26. Adapted from By the People, Citizenship Curriculum for AmeriCorps, by the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, http://www.cpn.org/tools/manuals/Youth/ americorps3.html;
27. building on Melissa Bass, Harry Boyte, et al., Making the Rules: A Public Achievement Guild Book, (Minneapolis: Project Public Life/Humphrey Institute, 1989); third edition on web at http://www.cpn.org/tools/manuals/Youth/rules1. html.
28. Nina Archabal, introduction to Minnesota, Real and Imagined: Essays on the State and Its Culture, ed. Stephen R.Graubard (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001), ix.
29. Ben Arnoldy, "Minneapolis Shows Why It's Rated No. 1 in Volunteerism," Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 8, 2007.
30. Archabal, Introduction, vix
31. Kolderie, speech to the St. Paul Skylight Club, Jan. 18, 2006;
32. Paul Nussbaum, "Environment Is Uniting Left and Right," Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 22, 2005.
33. Interview with Timothy DenHerder-Thomas, St. Paul, June 5, 2007.
34. Interview with Lt. Col. Timothy Kamenar, Minneapolis, June 7, 2007, and written correspondence, Sept. 28, 2007;
35. Elaborated with examples from the Warrior to Citizen section of the CDC website, www.publicwork.org,accessed July 28, 2007.
36. Walter Mondale, The Changing Shape of Minnesota (Minneapolis: Humphrey Institute, 2003).
37. These views are quoted from Harry C. Boyte, Public Engagement in a Civic Mission (Washington, D.C.: Council on Public Policy Education, 1999);
38. East African Circle, Nov. 14, 2005;
39. Alina Tugend, "Pining for the Kick-Back Weekend," New York Times, Apr. 15, 2006, accessed online Apr. 18, 2006.
40. Interview with Andrea Grazzini Walstrom, Minneapolis, May 30, 2006.
41. Mary Lynn Smith, "Wanted: A Day of Rest for Youth Sports," Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct. 2, 2005.
42. Interview with Gail Dubrow, July 16, 2006.
43. WPA Federal Writers Project Guide to Minnesota 1938 (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1938, 1983), 7.
44. Rhoda Gilman, "The History and Peopling of Minnesota: Its Culture," in Minnesota Real and Imagined, ed. Stephen R. Graubard, 26.
45. Charles Rumford Walker, American City: A Rank and File History of Minneapolis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005); editor quoted on p. 11.
46. Walker, American City, 29.
47. Special 75th anniversary issue of St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dec. 31, 1933.
48. Jim Storm and Michael Vitt, Master of Creative Philanthropy: The Story of Russell V. Ewald (Minneapolis: Philanthroid Press, 2000), 10, 11, 58-59, 106.
49. John Dewey, Collected Works, vol. 6, p. 232. Thank you to Jim Farr for these references to Dewey's explicit views on populism.
50. Norman K. Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005), 213.
51. Nan Kari and I trace these cooperative work traditions in the experiences and cultures of immigrant groups in Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work (Philadelphia: Temple, 1996).
52. WPA Guide, 77-78;
53. William E. Lass, Minnesota: A History, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), 143.
54. John Radzilowski, On-the-Road Histories: Minnesota (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2006), 48.
55. "Immigration Reform Campaign Heats Up," ISAIAH: Building Just Communities (Apr. 2006): 1, 4;
56. David D. Kirkpatrick, "Demonstrations on Immigration Harden a Divide," New York Times, Apr. 17, 2006;
57. Here and below, Stephanie Devitt, "Northeast Neighborhood House: Research report for the Center for Democracy and Citizenship," Dec. 10, 2006, in author's possession, p. 4, 6.
58. Lori Sturdevant, ed., Changemaker: W. Harry Davis (Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 2003), 32.
59. Kay Miller, Richard Green-The Minneapolis school superintendent believes 'When the public schools have failed and ceased or are weakened this nation will have failed,'" Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sept. 7, 1986.
60. New York Times Magazine, "What It Takes to Make a Student," Nov. 26, 2006
61. Interview with Atum Azzahir, Minneapolis, May 23, 2006.
62. Quote from Minnesota Working Group discussion, Apr. 13, 2006
63. Quotes from Cultural Wellness Center website, http://www.ppcwc.org/about- us, accessed Feb. 2, 2008.
64. See for instance, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, edited by Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley (New York: New York University, 1965).
65. The End of One Way (Minneapolis: McKnight Foundation, 2004), 44-61.
66. Azzahir and Barbee, "Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center," 50.
67. Ira De Reid, The Negro Community of Baltimore: A Social Survey (Baltimore: Urban League, 1934);
68. Interview with Gerald Taylor, Baltimore, Nov. 11, 1987;
69. Interview with Vernon Dobson, Baltimore, Nov. 13, 1987.
70. Azzahir quotes above from interview, May 23, 2006.
71. "Immigration Reform Campaign Heats Up," ISAIAH: Building Just Communities (Apr. 2006): 1, 4;
72. David D. Kirkpatrick, "Demonstrations on Immigration Harden a Divide," New York Times, Apr. 17, 2006
73. Harry C. Boyte, Backyard Revolution: Understanding the New Citizen Movement (Philadelphia: Temple, 1980);
74. Boyte, Community Is Possible: Repairing America's Roots (New York: Harper & Row, 1984);
75. Boyte, CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics (New York: Free Press, 1990);
76. Boyte, Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
77. http://www.gamaliel.org/isaiah/whoweare/whatisisaiah.htm, accessed Feb. 2, 2008.
78. Interview with Doran Schrantz, Minneapolis, May 23, 2006.
79. Interview with Sarah Mullins, St. Paul, June 1, 2006.
80. Faith in Democracy (Minneapolis: ISAIAH, 2004), 16.
81. Interview with Aneesa Parks, Minneapolis, June 13, 2006.
82. Faith in Democracy, 16. Also on web at http://www.gamaliel.org/isaiah/ whoweare/whatisisaiah.htm, accessed Feb. 3, 2008.
83. Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals (New York: Random House, 1946), 76, 79.
84. interview with Ron Peterson, Roseville, MN, June 13, 2006.
85. Interview with Doran Schrantz, Minneapolis, May 23, 2006.
86. Interview with Aneesa Parks, June 13, 2006.
87. Telephone interview with Nora Slawik, Maplewood, MN, June 22, 2006.
88. Interview with Sue Eng, Minneapolis, May 9, 2006; interview with Doran Schrantz, Minneapolis, June 21, 2006.
89. Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 77.
90. http://www.publicwork.org/pdf/speeches/TaleofTw.pdf.
91. Here and below, student quotes from Michael Kuhne, Listening to the Students' Voices: An Early Document in the Ongoing Assessment of the Relationship between Public Achievement and the Urban Teacher Program (Minneapolis: MCTC, 2001), 5, 6, 18.
92. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/victor/publicengagement.
93. Interview with Russ Lyons, Minneapolis, Apr. 14, 2006.
94. Laila Davis, "Creating Sustainable Engagement from Public Forums," Humphrey Institute professional paper, July 25, 2006, p. 29.
95. Martha Bayles, "Now Showing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," Washington Post, Aug. 28, 2005, B01.
96. Here and below, interview with Amy Jo Pierce, Minneapolis, June 1, 2006.
97. Here and below, interview with Blake Hogan, Minneapolis, Apr. 27, 2006.
98. Here and below, interview with Amir Pinnix, June 16, 2006.
99. Jefferson and Rush quoted from People 's Bicentennial Commission, Voices of the American Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 175-76;
100. Paul Leichester Ford, ed., The Works of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1903), 278.
101. David Mathews, "Public-Government/Public-Schools," National Civic Review 85, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 15;
102. Peter Levine, The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens (Boston: Tufts University Press, 2007), 110.
103. David Mathews, Reclaiming Public Education by Reclaiming Our Democracy (Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation Press, 2006), 16-18.
104. Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 4, 5, 24, 35.
105. Figures from Nick Longo, Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007), 135.
106. Nan Skelton, Nan Kari, Kari Dennisen, David Scheie, and Harry Boyte, A Community Alive with Learning (Minneapolis: Humphrey Institute, 2006), 6;
107. Organizer quoted in Longo, Why Community Matters, 143.
108. Community Alive with Learning, 7.
109. Laurence Steinberg, Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 194.
110. Street-Stewart quoted in Longo, Why Community Matters, 101.
111. Dennis Shirley, Community Organizing for Urban School Reform (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), 72.
112. Longo, Why Community Matters, 102
113. Quoted from Boyte, "Libraries as Free Spaces," Continuum (May 2006), 1.
114. Nick Longo's Why Community Matters
115. Skelton quoted from Harry C. Boyte, Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 152.
116. Quoted in A Community Alive with Learning, 19.
117. Quoted in Longo, Why Community Matters, 92;
118. Myron P. Medcalf, "A Better Education Just a Bus Ride Away," Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 3, 2007.
119. Costello, Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class Gender, and Success at Professional School (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005).
120. Excerpt from an interview with William Doherty, Minneapolis, July 22, 2001.
121. Interview with William Doherty, St. Paul, June 28, 2006.
122. Interview with Eric Yancey, Minneapolis, June 2, 2006.
123. Patrick Condon, "Simple Birthdays for Kids Are the Goal," Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 22, 2007;
124. Corner, "Local Parent Group Hopes to Bring Sanity Back to Kids' Birthdays," Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 23, 2007.
125. "Minnesota Shows Signs of Civic Revival," Star Tribune, Oct. 29, 2005.
126. Interview with Elizabeth Kautz, Burnsvile, MN, Aug. 10, 1995.
127. Kautz quotes from interview, Aug. 10, 1995;
128. Konat quotes from Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari, "Commonwealth Democracy," Dissent (Fall, 1997): 49.
129. Frank Benest, "Serving Customers or Engaging Citizens: What Is the Future of Local Government?" This article was originally published as part of a special insert in the International City/County Management AssociationJournal, Nov. 1996. It is on the web at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/ citizenshandbook/benest.html, accessed Feb. 3, 2008.
130. Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life (New York: Macmillan, 1909), 139, 453.
131. Jane Addams, On Education (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, reprinted 1994), 98.
132. Liberty Hyde Bailey, New York State Rural Problems (Albany: J.B. Lon, 1913), 11-12, 133.
133. Liberty Hyde Bailey, The State and the Farmer (New York: MacMillan, 1908), 1, 120.
134. Interview with Carol Shields, St. Paul, June 15, 1995.
135. Mobley quoted in Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari, Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), 197.
136. Material on Extension adapted from Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari, "Democracy of the People: Expanding Citizen Capacity," in Capacity for Change? The Nonprofit World in the Age of Devolution, ed. Dwight F. Burlingame, William A. Diaz, and Warren F. Ilchman (Indianapolis: Center on Philanthropy, 1997); Salzer quote, 120.
137. Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
138. www.cpn.org;
139. http://www.publicwork.org/pdf/travellogs/Camp%20David%20seminar-386.pdf
140. The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001).
141. Carmen Sirianni, Investing in Democracy, manuscript in progress, Chapter 4, pp. 7, 28, in author's possession.
142. Interview with Nora Slawik, June 22, 2006.
143. Interview with Gerald Taylor, Apr. 26, 2002, Durham, NC.
144. Robert Nisbet, "The Total Community," in Power in Societies, ed. Marvin Olson (New York: Macmillan, 1970), 423.
145. Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy (Washington, D.C: American Enterprise Institute, 1977), 6;
146. Reagan quotes from George Will, "Grinchiness at Christmas Time," Minneapolis Tribune, Dec. 24, 1979.
147. Ronald Reagan, quoted in William Schambra, The Quest for Community and the Quest for a New Public Philosophy (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1983), 30.
148. CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics, ed. Harry C. Boyte (New York: Free Press, 1980);
149. Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004);
150. and, with Nan Kari, in Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996).
151. Karl Marx, The Holy Family (Moscow: Foreign Language Publishers, 1956), 123;
152. Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question (Moscow: Progress, 1970), 29.
153. Gianna Pomata, "A Common Heritage," in Harry C. Boyte and Frank Riessman, eds., The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 35-36.
154. Stanley Aronowitz, "The Working Class: A Break with the Past," in Divided Society: The Ethnic Experience in America, ed. Colin Greer (New York: Basic Books, 1974), 312-13.
155. Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (New York: New American Library, 1969), 463, 468.
156. Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte, Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1986; Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992).
157. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (New York: Vintage, 1966).
158. Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, "Culture and Public Action," in Culture and Public Action, ed. Rao and Walton (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), 5.
159. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1998).
160. Rao and Walton, "Conclusion," in Culture and Public Action, 361.
161. Here and below, Arjun Appadurai, "The Capacity to Aspire," in Culture and Public Action, 60-62, 69.
162. Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View (New York: Macmillan, 1974).
163. Andrew Ross, Universal Abandon: The Politics of Postmodernism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988);
164. Linda Alcoff, "Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory," Signs: Journal ofWomen in Culture and Society 13 (1988): 405-36;
165. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage, 1975).
166. Bernard Loomer, "Two Conceptions of Power," Criterion 15 (1976): 12-29
167. Harry C. Boyte, "Civic Populism," Perspectives on Politics 1 (2003): 737-42.