What Sort of Critique Were Organized Black Women Making of the New Deal State?

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The welfare rights movement was a form of resistance that defied the assumptions of the liberal order. By comparison, you write about the community constructed and tended by black women through hard times. What sort of critique were organized black women making of the new deal state? And to what extent did they point to another possible order beyond it?

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