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New Orleans after the promises poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society
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Title
New Orleans after the promises [electronic resource] : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / Kent B. Germany.
ISBN
0820342580
9780820342580
0820325430 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820329002 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820325439 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820329000 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 460 p., [10] p. of plates :) ill., map ;
Local Notes
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 U.S. Regional Studies Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-429) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Something new for the South?
A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city
Establishing the early war on poverty
Building community action
Challenging the establishment and the color line
Making better and happier citizens
Defusing the southern powder keg
Making workers and jobs
Making groceries
Making a model New Orleans
The thugs united and the politics of manhood
Women, welfare, and political mobilization
Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971
Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism
Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.
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