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New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society  Cover Image Book Book

New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0820329002 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780820329000 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0820325430 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780820325439 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xii, 460 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
    print
  • Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2007]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-429) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: New Orleans (La.) Race relations History 20th century
New Orleans (La.) Economic conditions 20th century
New Orleans (La.) Social policy
New Orleans (La.) Politics and government 20th century
Liberalism Louisiana New Orleans History 20th century
Political participation Louisiana New Orleans History 20th century
Citizenship Louisiana New Orleans History 20th century
Poverty Louisiana New Orleans History 20th century
African Americans Civil rights Louisiana New Orleans History 20th century

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NONFIC 976.335 GERMANY ( Send Text)
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31006002290856 Stacks Available

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