"The Anti-Poverty Hoax": Development, pacification, and the making of community in the global 1960s

Cities

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 139-145

  Roy, Ananya ^a   Schrader, Stuart ^b   Crane, Emma Shaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Ford Foundation; Ghetto; Oakland; Poverty; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928408043     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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