Alabama getaway : the political imaginary and the Heart of Dixie / Allen Tullos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tullos, Allen, 1950-

Series:

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Alabama.

Political culture.

Alabama--Politics and government--1951-.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary-the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity. From Alabama's largely ineffectual politicians to its miserly support of education, health care, cultural institutions, and social services, Tullos examines why the state appears to be stuck in repetitive loops of uneven development and debilitating habits of judgment. The state remains tied to fundamentalisms of religion, race, gender, winner-take-all economics, and militarism enforced by punitive and defensive responses to criticism. Tullos traces the spectral legacy of George Wallace, ponders the roots of anti-egalitarian political institutions and tax structures, and challenges Birmingham native Condoleezza Rice's use of the civil rights struggle to justify the war in Iraq. He also gives due coverage to the state's black citizens who with a minority of whites have sustained a movement for social justice and democratic inclusion. As Alabama competes for cultural tourism and global industries like auto manufacturing and biomedical research, Alabama Getaway asks if the coming years will see a transformation of the "Heart of Dixie."

Contents:

Habits of judgment

The sez-you state

The punitive habit

Public figures of speech

In the ditch with Wallace

Oafs of office

The one-trick pony and the man on the horse

Stakes in the Heart of Dixie

Black Alabamas

Baghdad as Birmingham

Invasions of normalcy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613035158

9781283035156

1283035154

9780820339610

082033961X

OCLC:

792700373