The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 19601990 (Historical Studies of Urban America),Used

The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 19601990 (Historical Studies of Urban America),Used

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Stories of Newarks postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the citys decline mounted by Newarks residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of lowincome housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the fixers we meetpeople who devised ways to work with limited resources and pull together the threads of a patchwork welfare state.Rabig argues that fixers play dual roles. They support resistance, but also mediation; they fight for reform, but also more radical and farreaching alternatives; they rally others to a collective cause, but sometimes they broker factions. Fixers reflect longer traditions of organizing while responding to the demands of their times. In so doing, they end up fixing (like a fixative) a new and enduring pattern of activist strategies, reforms, and institutional expectationsa pattern we continue to see today.

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