Author: Kathleen Staudt
KATHLEEN STAUDT is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Endowed Professor of Western Hemispheric Trade Policy Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Border Politics in a Global Era and Violence and Activism at the Border.
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Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation
Published: March, 2020 Pages: 360 Features: 25 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.
Texas-based affiliates in the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)—built on ideas, principles, and actions from the late Saul Alinsky—offer a strong, mature organizing model compared with other community organizations. In Hope for Justice and Power, Kathleen Staudt examines the twenty-first-century activities of the Texas IAF in multiple cities and towns around the state, drawing on forty years of academic teaching and on twenty years of active leadership experiences in the IAF. She identifies major contradictions, tensions, and their resolutions in IAF organizing related to centralism versus local control, reformist versus radical goals, stable revenue generation, greater gender balance in leadership, and evolving IAF principles. more... about Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation