{"product_id":"you-cant-eat-freedom-greta-de-jong-9781469654799","title":"You Can't Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greta de Jong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469654792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469654799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72d","brand":"Greta de Jong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048804905215,"sku":"9781469654799","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e66e0bfe-1c76-406f-9540-dc0632702926.jpg?v=1684997933","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/you-cant-eat-freedom-greta-de-jong-9781469654799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}