Conference paper
Challenging Liberal Foundations: A Critical Examination of Funding Sources for Anti-Racism Activism
The Complexities of Racism: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order, pp.50-72
International Conference on Racisims in the New World Order, 2nd (Caloundra, Australia, 06-Dec-2007–07-Dec-2007)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2008
Abstract
Today in America, tens of thousands of philanthropic foundations finance social change, in the year 2000 alone they distributed $26.7 billion worth of grants. Scholarly attention has been paid to the role of right-wing foundations in promoting often racist neoliberal politics, but to date few studies have critiqued the role of liberal foundations in funding anti-racism projects. For instance, despite having long associations with both the US's Central Intelligence Agency and the civil rights movement (relationships that were sustained simultaneously throughout the 1960s), the Ford Foundation - a prominent liberal foundation - continues to play a crucial role in funding anti-racism work. For example, in 2001 the Ford Foundation played an important role in funding the United Nations World Conference Against Racism. This paper will provide a much needed overview of the problems associated with liberal foundation funding of progressive anti-racism activities and research. It will then provide a number of recommendations for how anti-racism activists may begin to move away from their (arguably unsustainable) reliance on liberal foundation philanthropy.
Details
- Title
- Challenging Liberal Foundations: A Critical Examination of Funding Sources for Anti-Racism Activism
- Authors
- M Barker (Author) - Griffith University
- Contributors
- Hurriyet Babacan (Editor)Narayan Gopalkrishnan (Editor)
- Publication details
- The Complexities of Racism: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order, pp.50-72
- Conference details
- International Conference on Racisims in the New World Order, 2nd (Caloundra, Australia, 06-Dec-2007–07-Dec-2007)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2008
- ISBN
- 9780980474411
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2008 The Authors. Reproduced with permission of the authors.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450161602621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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