- 388 pages
- English
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About this book
The question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. Here, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods when economic opportunity appeared to be a real possibility: Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Political leaders who believed slavery and Jim Crow degraded Black people enacted policies to rehabilitate formerly subjugated individuals. Black Americans, on the other hand, repudiated the idea that they were damaged people in need of repair. Repeatedly, Black people’s vision of economic justice was based on antiprivilege egalitarianism, the idea that a just restitution for their oppression required abolishing the political and legal privileges whites had acquired. Black opposition reveals what was at stake at each historical moment and what might constitute economic justice in the twenty-first century.
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Table of contents
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: Race, Liberalism, and Equality of Opportunity
- 1. The Political Invention of Equality of Opportunity, 1830–1860
- 2. “What Shall We Do with the Negro?” Race and Liberalism in the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865–1872
- 3. Saving Sharecroppers? Black Tenant Farmers and the Southern Enclosure, 1934–1943
- 4. Black Enclaves and the African American Quest for Land, 1880–1950
- 5. The Revolution Stalled: The Southern War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964–1972
- 6. What Does Racial Justice Require?
- Appendix
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index