[PDF] Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State Writen By Claire Dunning
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
By : Claire Dunning
DESCRIPTION : An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. ? Nonprofits serving a range of municipal and cultural needs are now so ubiquitous in US cities, it can be difficult to envision a time when they were more limited in number, size, and influence. Turning back the clock, however, uncovers both an illuminating story of how the nonprofit sector became such a dominant force in American society, as well as a troubling one of why this growth occurred alongside persistent poverty and widening inequality. Claire Dunning?s book connects these two stories in histories of race, democracy, and capitalism, revealing how the federal government funded and deputized nonprofits to help individuals in need, and in so doing avoided addressing the structural inequities that necessitated such action in the first place.Nonprofit Neighborhoods begins after World War II, when suburbanization, segregation, and