New Deal
A series of domestic programs and policies enacted in the United States during the 1930s under Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression. The claims reference it as a distinct historical period of federal interventionism and legislation that, while aiming at economic recovery, also entrenched racial hierarchies through exclusions and compromises with southern Democrats.
Claims that use this term
- Gramsci analyzed fascism as comparable to Bonapartism and New Deal interventionism
- Raising Soviet security and New Deal aims displaced revolutionary politics in the thirties.
- US governments deployed credit policy to uphold racial hierarchies after the New Deal
- Moynihan’s report blamed Black mothers while ignoring state-imposed disadvantages and New Deal exclusion.
- New Deal legislation racially discriminated because it needed southern Democratic votes.
- New Deal discrimination convinced Du Bois that Black self-reliance was essential.