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White flight : Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism / Kevin M. Kruse.
- Title
- White flight : Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism / Kevin M. Kruse.
- Author
- Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 325 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America
- Subjects
- History
- 1900-1999
- White people > Georgia > Atlanta > Politics and government > 20th century
- White people > Georgia > Atlanta > Migrations > 20th century
- Government, Resistance to > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century
- Conservatism > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century
- Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government > 20th century
- African Americans > Segregation > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century
- Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "The city too busy to hate": Atlanta and the politics of progress. -- From radicalism to "respectability": race, residence, and segregationist strategy. -- From community to individuality: race, residence, and segregationist ideology. -- The abandonment of public space: desegregation, privatization, and the tax revolt. -- The "second battle of Atlanta": massive resistance and the divided middle class. -- The flight for "freedom of association": school desegregation and White withdrawal. -- Collapse of the coalition: sit-ins and the business rebellion. -- "The law of the land": federal intervention and the Civil Rights Act. -- City limits: urban separatism and suburban secession. -- Epilogue: The legacies of White flight.
- ISBN
- 0691092605 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691092607
- LCCN
- ^^2004062468
- OCLC
- 57142517
- SCSB-10077688
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library