New Orleans after the Promises : Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Germany, Kent B., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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