Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

by Karen Ferguson

At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president McGeorge Bundy chose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245261
• ISBN13: 9780812245264
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"