You Can't Eat Freedom
Southerners and Social Justice After the Civil Rights Movement
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 19987442 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Greta De Jong (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Páginas | 320 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-10-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Revista | You Can't Eat Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629308.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4247927020 |
| Open Library | OL28609514M |
| ISBN | 9781469629308 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | y6UwDAAAQBAJ |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 14 |
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousands of former sharecroppers from the land. Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyzes how social justice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders, initiating antipoverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises that fostered economic and political autonomy, efforts that encountered strong opposition from free market proponents who opposed government action to solve the crisis. Making clear the relationship between the civil rights movement and the War on Poverty, this history of rural organizing shows how responses to labor displacement in the South shaped the experiences of other Americans who were affected by mass layoffs in the late twentieth century, shedding light on a debate that continues to reverberate today
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Legislation · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Unemployment · Law · Race, History, and American Society · African americans · Agriculture · Agriculture, economic aspects · Economic aspects · Economic conditions · Economic history · History · Internal Migration · Migration, internal · Social conditions · Southern states · united states
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Plantation and Enlightenment
Black (W)hole Foods
Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s
From Austerity to Disentitlement
Political economy, institutional reconstruction, and ‘realistic utopia’
“Will We Cut Off Our Bread by Doing Something More?”
The Contractual Aesthetics of Sharecropping in Black Conceptualism
The Curious Case of Oscar Lorick
From Bondage to Citizenship
Improperty
Trust Land
The Ground Not Given
| Obras citantes distintas | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,75 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 13 |