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Author Averbeck, Robin Marie, author.

Title Liberalism is not enough : race and poverty in postwar political thought / Robin Marie Averbeck
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One. The Drinking Water; Chapter Two. Diagnosing Poverty; Chapter Three. A Culture of Poverty; Chapter Four. Building the Blame; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary "In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Liberalism is not enough offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Focusing on the figures associated with 'Great Society liberalism' like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, David Riesman, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Robin Marie Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2018)
Subject Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Equality -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Poverty -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
African Americans -- Social conditions
Equality
Liberalism
Poor -- Social conditions
Poverty
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469646657
146964665X
9781469646664
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