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001 2011022468
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005 20121026092150.0
008 110720s2011 gauab b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aRA563.M56$bT46 2011
082 00 $a362.1089/00973$223
084 $aHIS036060$aPOL004000$aSOC057000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aThomas, Karen Kruse.
245 10 $aDeluxe Jim Crow :$bcivil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 /$cKaren Kruse Thomas.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$cc2011.
300 $axvii, 372 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the U.S. Public Health Service during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.Karen Kruse Thomas details how NAACP lawsuits pushed southern states to equalize public services and facilities for blacks just as wartime shortages of health personnel and high rates of draft rejections generated broad support for health reform. Southern Democrats leveraged their power in Congress and used the war effort to call for federal aid to uplift the South. The language of regional uplift, Thomas contends, allowed southern liberals to aid blacks while remaining silent on race. Reformers embraced, at least initially, the notion of "deluxe Jim Crow"--support for health care that maintained segregation. Thomas argues that this strategy was, in certain respects, a success, building much-needed hospitals and training more black doctors.By the 1950s, deluxe Jim Crow policy had helped to weaken the legal basis for segregation. Thomas traces this transformation at the national level and in North Carolina, where "deluxe Jim Crow reached its fullest potential." This dual focus allows her to examine the shifting alliances--between blacks and liberal whites, southerners and northerners, activists and doctors--that drove policy. Deluxe Jim Crow provides insight into a variety of historical debates, including the racial dimensions of state building, the nature of white southern liberalism, and the role of black professionals during the long civil rights movement"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Thomas provides a detailed history of federal health policy as it was applied to the U.S. South in the mid-twentieth century, a period when the region was described as "the number one health problem in the nation." In particular, she focuses on how reformers' early emphasis on across-the-board regional uplift was eclipsed by efforts to desegregate medical facilities and address racial disparities in the health care system"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 347-356) and index.
650 0 $aMinorities$xMedical care$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aDiscrimination in medical care$zUnited States$z20th century.
650 0 $aEquality$xHealth aspects$zUnited States$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xMedical care$zUnited States$z20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues$2bisacsh.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011022468-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011022468-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2011022468-t.html