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About the Author:
Kent B. Germany, is assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of South Carolina
Editorial Reviews
American Historical Review
This is a major contribution to the historiography of civil rights and postwar urban history. Well researched and provocative ... Dense, nuanced, and at times overwhelmingly detailed, this fresh and invigorating study's scope, range, and ambition are too wide for a short review, but the book will reward the patient reader and deserves the widest possible audience.—Peniel E. Joseph
Reviews in American History
Every idealistic college graduate heading to the post-Katrina city to gut houses or teach children should read [Germany's] book.... The depth of his research and facility with archival resources...is quite remarkable.... [L]eaves the reader wishing to follow the story further.—Michael Mizell-Nelson
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
[D]eserves to be considered among the foremost urban studies of post-1945 U.S. political and social history.... Densely packed with intricate details...New Orleans After the Promises stands in the vanguard of scholarly attention to the mechanisms through which the Great Society operated.--(J. Mark Souther, author of New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City (2006))From the Publisher
"Germany's study is a major contribution to a small but growing body of scholarship that asks new questions about the impact and consequences of the civil rights movement, particularly as mediated through the economic opportunity legislation of the 1960s. Focusing on New Orleans, Germany expertly weaves a narrative that considers how the intersection of federal initiatives and grass roots activism shaped the possibilities and limitations for restructuring civic life, black opportunity, and race relations in the post Jim Crow South."--Patricia Sullivan, author of Days of Hope
"Remarkably few historians have probed the local impact of the War on Poverty. While there are many grim twists and unfulfilled hopes in New Orleans After the Promises, Germany shows that the Great Society lived on into the 1970s in New Orleans, and that federal social programs helped to destroy white supremacy. Historians who unthinkingly adopt the concept of a civil rights ‘crisis of victory’, and who assume that the War on Poverty was nothing more than tokenism, must read this important and highly original book."--Gareth Davies, University of Oxford
"Meticulously researched . . . This balanced case study raises new questions about the outcome of the War on Poverty and the persistence of racial inequity in the twenty-first century. . . . This is a fine study that anyone concerned with racial justice in America should read."--Journal of American History
"This is a major contribution to the historiography of civil rights and postwar urban history. Well researched and provocative . . . Dense, nuanced, and at times overwhelmingly detailed, this fresh and invigorating study's scope, range, and ambition are too wide for a short review, but the book will reward the patient reader and deserves the widest possible audience."--American Historical Review
“Deserves to be considered among the foremost urban studies of post-1945 U.S. political and social history . . . Densely packed with intricate details . . . New Orleans After the Promises stands in the vanguard of scholarly attention to the mechanisms through which the Great Society operated."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"Every idealistic college graduate heading to the post-Katrina city to gut houses or teach children should read [Germany's] book. . . . The depth of his research and facility with archival resources . . . is quite remarkable. . . . Leaves the reader wishing to follow the story further."--Reviews in American History
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Meet the Author
Kent B. Germany, a native of Louisiana and former resident of New Orleans, is Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Previously he was Deputy Director of the Presidential Recordings Program and director of the LBJ Project at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. He is co-host of "For The Record," a PBS program on politics and history, and is coeditor of two books about Lyndon Johnson and the 1960s: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power and Toward the Great Society.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Something New for the South? 1
A War on Poverty, Segregation, and Alienation, 1964-1974 19
A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern City 21
Establishing the Early War on Poverty 38
Building Community Action 59
Challenging the Establishment and the Color Line 83
Making Better and Happier Citizens 104
Defusing the Southern Powder Keg 126
Making Workers and Jobs 151
Making Groceries 165
Making a Model New Orleans 180
Black Power and Dixie's Democratic Moment, 1968-1974 209
The Thugs United and the Politics of Manhood 211
Women, Welfare, and Political Mobilization 224
Acronyms, Liberalism, and Electoral Politics, 1969-1971 246
Panthers, Snipers, and the Limits of Liberalism 271
Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina 296
Appendixes 315
Notes 335
Bibliography 401
Index 431