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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | The Case for Innovation | 1 |
| 2 | Education | 7 |
| Meeting the Needs of At-Risk Students: The Alternative High Schools in Public Housing Program | 9 | |
| Meeting the Needs of Modern Families: The Extended School Program | 17 | |
| A Community Comes Together to Improve Education: The Public/Private Partnerships in Education Program | 26 | |
| Teaching the Teachers: The Parents as Teachers Program | 32 | |
| Teaching by Example: The Community Mentors Partnership Program | 40 | |
| 3 | Health Care and Drug Abuse | 49 |
| Providing for the Very Young: The Medical Care for Children Project | 51 | |
| Caring for the Uninsured: The Health Care Access Project | 59 | |
| A County Insures Providers for a Good Cause: Meeting the Obstetrical Needs of Low Income Women | 66 | |
| Setting a Precedent: The Healthy Start Program | 72 | |
| An Inexpensive Approach to Drug Treatment: The Child Abuse Prevention Project | 75 | |
| 4 | Environmental Management | 81 |
| Helping Businesses Clean Up: The Environmental Compliance Service Program | 83 | |
| Extending the Usefulness of Landfills: The Landfill Reclamation Project | 89 | |
| Reducing Solid Waste: The City of Seattle Recycling Program | 95 | |
| Pollution Control Made Simple: The Water Pollution Control Program | 101 | |
| A Cost-Effective Way to Save a Limited Resource: The I.Q. Water Program | 107 | |
| 5 | Housing | 115 |
| Creating and Preserving Low-Cost Housing: The SRO Residential Hotel Program | 116 | |
| Encouraging Private Investment in Affordable Housing: The Housing Vermont Program | 122 | |
| A State Helps Communities Create Affordable Housing: The Massachusetts Housing Partnership Program | 130 | |
| Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Housing: The Fair Housing Testing and Enforcement Program | 136 | |
| Breaking Down Barriers with Economic Incentives: The Racial Integration Incentives Program | 143 | |
| 6 | Economic Development | 151 |
| Re-invigorating a Declining Industry: The Garment Industry Development Corporation | 152 | |
| A Broad Approach to Increasing Exports: The XPORT Port Authority Trading Company | 161 | |
| A Focused Approach to Export Development: The Export Services Center | 167 | |
| Integrating Human Development and Economic Development: The Attleboro Area Center for Training | 172 | |
| An Alternative to Closing the Local Factory: The Employee Ownership Program | 177 | |
| 7 | Lessons for Better Program Management | 183 |
| Prerequisites for Success | 183 | |
| Program Content | 187 | |
| Program Management | 189 | |
| Program Organization | 190 | |
| Program Clients | 196 | |
| Program Funding | 197 | |
| A Concluding Note | 199 | |
| Notes | 201 | |
| Index | 203 |
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Debbie Borda
reviewed Government that works on January 12, 2017
Government that works
While much of this book focuses on the history of his native country of Haiti, Trouillot's goal is broader: an epistemological re-evaluation of how our perceptions of history are formed. Of how we understand history to be true. Of how opinions come to be historical fact. It's not light reading, but easy enough to absorb when he moves from the theoretical to the specific. He goes beyond the commonplace "History is written by the victors" to demonstrate by example the four stages leading to this end result.
Those four stages are the moments when decisions are made, intentionally or otherwise, that affect what we come to perceive as history: at the time original records are (or are not) created; at the time those records are selected for retention; at the time they are retrieved and put into a narrative; and at the time that narrative is evaluated for significance. Omissions ("silences") at any point can alter our interpretation of past events.
Silences result not just from disdain or prejudice, but from the fact that the reality is "unthinkable" to the recorder/archiver/narrative developer/evaluator. The Haitian revolution of 1791-1804 provides a vivid example: that the slaves could have, on their own, desired, organized and successfully concluded their own revolutionary war was an idea inconceivable by the French or most others interpreting the record. This section brought to mind a book I read not long ago, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. The reality of how the South Pacific was colonized remained unknown (at least outside Polynesian oral history) for hundreds of years because Europeans simply couldn't accept that the Polynesian outriggers could have travelled the distances it has since been proved that they can.
The book is a brilliant framework, illustrating the inherent reasons that the true histories of blacks, women, native populations, and others have been omitted from history. Since we continue to struggle with the ways in which these perceptions mold actions and opinions in the 21st century these are ideas that bear thinking about.
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