Re: Re: Re: sacred American art forms III

[Joel Blau]

The theory underlying MFY's work on juvenile delinquency derived from work by Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin--in particular, their 1960 book Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs. The idea behind it was that rather than just being "bad" a la Officer Krupke, juvenile delinquents faced "blocked opportunities" that prevented them from moving upward.

Joel Blau

Carrol Cox wrote:

Timework Web wrote:

> Carrol Cox asked:
>
> > What does MFY stand for?
>
> MFY: Mobilization for Youth, a New York City program in the late
> 1950s- early 1960s sponsored by the Ford Foundation (and others).

No wonder -- I was in grad school. No time for the outer world.

>
> OEO: Office of Economic Opportunity AKA the War on Poverty

Yeah -- That I know. Poor people actually got control of the local
program -- so the local city councils opted out and no federal money
ever arrived. It was fun while the battle lasted though.

Apparently MFY never got much headline space in the midwest --
or at least in Ann Arbor.

Carrol