Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
ISBN-10
0807853704
ISBN-13
9780807853702
Category
Social Science
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Press
Author
Karen Jane Ferguson

Description

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.

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