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New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society
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New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / Kent B. Germany.
ISBN
9780820325439 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820325430 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820329000 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820329002 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xii, 460 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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