White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Name: White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
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ISBN: 9780691092607

ISBN-10: 0691092605

ISBN-13: 9780691092607

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kevin M. Kruse

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During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and else-where. 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…

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List price: $52.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/2/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



"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 Fight 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


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Index