Liberalism Is Not Enough
Subtitle: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 12, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781469646640
Description: "In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Liberalism is not enough offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Focusing on the figures associated with 'Great Society liberalism' like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, David Riesman, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Robin Marie Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice"--
Notes: Source title: Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought