White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Name: White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
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ISBN: 9780691133867

ISBN-10: 0691133867

ISBN-13: 9780691133867

Edition: 2005

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 elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms,White Flightmoves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.13" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



""The City oo 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 ax Revolt



The ""Second Battle of Atlanta"": Massive Resistance and the Divid