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.
*Co-sponsored with the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series
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