Race and the Origins of American Neoliberalism

by Randolph Hohle

Book Overview

Why did the United States forsake its support for public works projects, public schools, public spaces, and high corporate taxes for the neoliberal project that uses the state to benefit businesses at the expense of citizens? The short answer to this question is race. This book argues that the white response to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s inadvertently created the conditions for emergence of American neoliberalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138832553
• ISBN13: 9781138832558
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"