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Zusatztext "Kruse provides a useful resource in the debate over the significance of race in politics. His book is thoroughly researched and well written. Students interested in modern politics and Civil Rights histories alike would greatly benefit from this work." ---Jensen E. Branscombe, Southern Historian Informationen zum Autor Kevin M. Kruse is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America and the coauthor of Fault Lines: A History of America since 1974. Klappentext "In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history." --Dan Carter, University of South Carolina " White Flight is a myth-shattering book. Focusing on the city that prided itself as 'too busy to hate, ' Kevin Kruse reveals the everyday ways that middle-class whites in Atlanta resisted civil rights, withdrew from the public sphere, and in the process fashioned a new, grassroots, suburban-based conservatism. This important book has national implications for our thinking about the links between race, suburbanization, and the rise of the New Right." --Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis "This is an imaginative work that ably treats an important subject. Kruse gets beyond and beneath Atlanta's image as a place of racial moderation, the national center of the civil rights movement, and a seedbed of black political power to reveal other simultaneous, important currents at work." --Clifford Kuhn, Georgia State University "Kevin Kruse recasts our understanding of the conservative resistance to the civil rights movement. Shifting the spotlight from racial extremists to ordinary white urban dwellers, he shows that "white flight" to the suburbs was among the most powerful social movements of our time. That movement not only reconfigured the urban landscape, it also transformed political ideology, laying the groundwork for the rise of the New Right and undermining the commitment of white Americans to the common good. No one can read this book and come away believing that the politics of suburbia are colorblind." --Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Zusammenfassung Explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, this book moves past stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 CHAPTER ONE: "The City oo Busy to Hate": Atlanta and the Politics of Progress 19 CHAPTER TWO: From Radicalism to "Respectability": Race! Residence! and Segregationist Strategy 42 C HAPTER THREE: From Community to Individuality: Race! Residence! and Segregationist Ideology 78 CHAPTER FOUR: The Abandonment of Public Space: Desegregation! Privatization! and the ax Revolt 105 CHAPTER FIVE: The "Second Battle of Atlanta": Massive Resistance and the Divided Middle Class 131 CHAPTER SIX: The Fight for "Freedom of Association": School Desegregation and White Withdrawal 161 CHAPTER SEVEN: Collapse of the Coalition: Sit-Ins and the Business Rebellion 180 CHAPTER EIGHT: "The Law of the Land": Federal Intervention and the Civil Rights Act 205 CHAPTER NINE: City Limits: Urban Separatism and Suburban Secession 234 EPILOGUE: The Legacies of White Flight 259 List of Abbreviations 267 Notes 269 Index 313 ...
