How Long to Read Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race

How Long Does it Take to Read Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 8 minutes to read Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race by Mark Santow

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race. Saul Alinsky is the most famous—even infamous—community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations, which used the power of a neighborhood’s residents to define and fight for their own interests. Across a long and controversial career spanning more than three decades, Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundation organized Eastern European meatpackers in Chicago, Kansas City, Buffalo, and St. Paul; Mexican Americans in California and Arizona; white middle-class homeowners on the edge of Chicago’s South Side black ghetto; and African Americans in Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, and other cities. Mark Santow focuses on Alinsky’s attempts to grapple with the biggest moral dilemma of his age: race. As Santow shows, Alinsky was one of the few activists of the period to take on issues of race on paper and in the streets, on both sides of the color line, in the halls of power, and at the grassroots, in Chicago and in Washington, DC. Alinsky’s ideas, actions, and organizations thus provide us with a unique and comprehensive viewpoint on the politics of race, poverty, and social geography in the United States in the decades after World War II. Through Alinsky’s organizing and writing, we can see how the metropolitan color line was constructed, contested, and maintained—on the street, at the national level, and among white and black alike. In doing so, Santow offers new insight into an epochal figure and the society he worked to change.

How long is Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race?

Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race by Mark Santow is 417 pages long, and a total of 107,169 words.

This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 131% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 45 minutes to read Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race aloud.

What Reading Level is Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race?

Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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