This intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Robin Marie Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice.

This intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Robin Marie Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice.