Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community-Action during the American Century Co-sponsored with the Cultural Studies Colloquium and American Studies
Join Professor Alyosha Goldstein (American Studies) from the
University of New Mexico to discuss his new book, Poverty in
Common. Dr. Goldstein suggests new ways to think about the
relationship among liberalism, government, and inequality in the
United States by analyzing historical dynamics including:
Progressive-era reform as a precursor to community development
during the Cold War, the ways that the language of
“underdevelopment” articulated ideas about poverty and
foreignness, the use of poverty as a crucible of interest group
politics, and radical groups’ critical reframing of community
action in anticolonial terms.
