The Gift - Anya Sirota - Contradictions of a Benevolent City

Contradictions of a Benevolent City

Anya Sirota

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Stage set installation for performance at urban farm, North End, Detroit (2016). Photo: Akoaki.

The Gift
March 2024










Notes
1

Oliver Zunz, Philanthropy in America: A History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).

2

David Callahan, The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017); Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018).

3

Ivan Illich, The Church, Change and Development (New York: Herder and Herder, 1970).

4

Illich, The Church, Change, and Development, 30, 38–49.

5

John. F. Kennedy, “Address at a White House Reception For Members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics,” March 13, 1961. See .

6

“Keeping the Lights on in Detroit,” Philanthropy Roundtable, 2014. See .

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