Liberalism Is Not Enough (eBook)

Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought

Robin Marie Averbeck (Autor)

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2018
150 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4665-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America. Focusing on the figures associated with "e;Great Society liberalism"e; like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, David Riesman, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice.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.

Autor

Robin Marie Averbeck is a teacher, writer, and activist in northern California. She teaches at California State University, Chico.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1960s political thought • colorblind ideology • colorblind racism • Community action • critical race theory • critique of liberalism • culture of poverty • Daniel Bell • Daniel Patrick Moynihan • David Riesman • Francis Fox Piven • intellectual history of liberalism • Leonard Cottrell • Leonard S. Cottrell • liberal political thought • limits of liberalism • Lyndon Baines Johnson • Mobilization for Youth • Nathan Glazer • Neoconservatism • origins of the New Right • pluralism • postwar liberalism • racial capitalism • reaction against civil rights movement • reactionary liberals • Richard Cloward • Sargent Shriver • Seymour Martin Lipset • War on Poverty
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4665-X / 146964665X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4665-7 / 9781469646657