Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
Download or Read eBook Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta PDF written by Karen Jane Ferguson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Karen Jane Ferguson |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0807853704 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780807853702 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta by : Karen Jane Ferguson
Book excerpt: 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.
