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The Nashville way : racial etiquette and the struggle for social justice in a southern city / Benjamin Houston.

Title
The Nashville way : racial etiquette and the struggle for social justice in a southern city / Benjamin Houston.
Author
Houston, Benjamin.
Publication
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

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Description
xi, 320 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Among Nashville?s many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city?s amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of this moderate progressivism for which the city has long been credited.
Series Statement
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: The Nashville way -- A manner of segregation: lived race relations and racial etiquette -- The triumph of tokenism: public school desegregation -- The shame and the glory: the 1960 sit-ins -- The kingdom or individual desires?: movement and resistance during the 1960s -- Black power/white power: militancy in late 1960s Nashville -- Cruel mockeries: renewing a city -- Epilogue: Achieving justice.
ISBN
  • 9780820343266 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0820343269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780820343273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820343277 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012008404
OCLC
  • 780288751
  • SCSB-11057716
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library