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Behind the backlash : white working-class politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980 / Kenneth D. Durr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durr, Kenneth D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class white people--Maryland--Baltimore--Political activity.
- Working class white people.
- Working class white people--Maryland--Baltimore--Attitudes.
- Baltimore (Md.)--Race relations.
- Baltimore (Md.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenging notions that the "white backlash"; of the 1960's and 70's was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr examines white working-class life and politics in the neighbourhoods, workplaces and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II.
- Contents:
- A contentious coalition
- Reds and blue bloods
- You make your own heaven
- The right to live in the manner we choose
- Spiro Agnew country
- The not-so-silent majority
- Making the Reagan democrat.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890872692
- 9780807862377
- 0807862371
- OCLC:
- 476236559
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