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Liberalism Is Not Enough
Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought
Robin Marie Averbeck
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2018
Pages: 150
Subject: History, Social Science, Political Science
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Print ISBN: 9.78147E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469646657
DESCRIPTION
In Averbeck's telling, the Great Society's most notable achievements--the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act--came only after unrelenting and unprecedented organizing by black Americans made changing the inequitable status quo politically necessary. And even so, the discourse about poverty created by liberals had inherently conservative qualities. As Liberalism Is Not Enough reveals, liberalism's historical relationship with capitalism shaped both the initial content of liberal scholarship on poverty and its ultimate usefulness to a resurgent conservative movement.