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Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought

Name: Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469646640
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Contributors:

Robin Marie Averbeck

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Ethnic Studies, Public Policy

Book Topic:

20th Century, American, Social Policy

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Release Date:

2018-11-12

ISBN 13:

9781469646640

Weight:

0.52 lbs

Size:

9.46 x 7.82 x 0.44 inches

Pages:

150

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In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America. Focusing on the figures associated with "Great Society liberalism" like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, David Riesman, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice.

In Averbeck's telling, the Great Society's most notable achievements--the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act--came only after unrelenting and unprecedented organizing by black Americans made changing the inequitable status quo politically necessary. And even so, the discourse about poverty created by liberals had inherently conservative qualities. As Liberalism Is Not Enough reveals, liberalism's historical relationship with capitalism shaped both the initial content of liberal scholarship on poverty and its ultimate usefulness to a resurgent conservative movement.

About the Author
Averbeck, Robin Marie: - Robin Marie Averbeck is a teacher, writer, and activist in northern California. She teaches at California State University, Chico.

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