Black Excellence : Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wiggins, Danielle (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025]
Series:	Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:	Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government. African American mayors. Liberalism. Maires noirs américains. Libéralisme. liberalism. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Cover
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. The Politics of Black Excellence
Chapter 1. Black Liberalism's Disciplinary Impulse from Uplift to Politics
Chapter 2. Crime and the Crisis of Community in Maynard Jackson's Atlanta
Chapter 3. The Underclass and the Crisis of the Black Family in Reagan's America
Chapter 4. Unemployment and the Crisis of Black Human Capital in Andrew Young's Atlanta
Chapter 5. Jesse Jackson, the Democratic Leadership Council, and the Black New Democrats of Atlanta
Epilogue. Black Liberalism as Counterinsurgency
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments