New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / / Kent B. Germany.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 460 p., [10] p. of plates :; ill., map. |
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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.