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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robin Marie AverbeckPublish date:2018-11-12Pages:150
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469646640ISBN-10:1469646641UPC:9781469646640Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ethnic Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:20th Century, American, Social PolicySize:9.46 x 7.82 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC1WA0D2H6
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469646640ISBN-10:1469646641UPC:9781469646640Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ethnic Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:20th Century, American, Social PolicySize:9.46 x 7.82 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC1WA0D2H6
Averbeck, Robin Marie: - Robin Marie Averbeck is a teacher, writer, and activist in northern California. She teaches at California State University, Chico.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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