The author offers as a historical example of an effective multiracial political coalition The Industrial Areas Foundation originally founded by Saul Alinsky in an effort to organize Chicago's marginalized poor. ... IAF organizers work within faith-based organizations, mostly Christian churches, to identify and assemble experienced leaders into nonsectarian coalitions devoted to community development. ... In City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States, Ira Katznelson theorizes that which Jill Jonnes demonstrates, to a limited extent in South Bronx Rising,...

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