Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta |
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| Author:
| Ferguson, Karen |
| Series title: | The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-2701-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $82.00 |
Book Description:
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Ferguson looks at how black reformers in Atlanta used New Deal federal programs to advance their struggle for citizenship--and how they used their authority as agents of the state to impose a bourgeois "politics of respectability" that effectively stratified the black community.
Ferguson looks at how black reformers in Atlanta used New Deal federal programs to advance their struggle for citizenship--and how they used their authority as agents of the state to impose a bourgeois "politics of respectability" that effectively stratified the black community.