White flight : Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism / Kevin M. Kruse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruse, Kevin M., 1972-

Series:

Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Conservatism--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

Conservatism.

White people--Georgia--Atlanta--Migrations--20th century.

White people.

White people--Georgia--Atlanta--Politics and government--20th century.

Government, Resistance to--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

Government, Resistance to.

Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations.

Atlanta (Ga.).

Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms. Challenging the conventional wisdom that white flight meant nothing more than a literal movement of whites to the suburbs, this book argues that it represented a more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, Kruse demonstrates that traditional elements of modern conservatism, such as hostility to the federal government and faith in free enterprise, underwent important transformations during the postwar struggle over segregation. Likewise, white resistance gave birth to several new conservative causes, like the tax revolt, tuition vouchers, and privatization of public services. Tracing the journey of southern conservatives from white supremacy to white suburbia, Kruse locates the origins of modern American politics.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. "The City Too Busy to Hate": Atlanta and the Politics of Progress

Chapter Two. From Radicalism to "Respectability": Race, Residence, and Segregationist Strategy

Chapter Three. From Community to Individuality: Race, Residence, and Segregationist Ideology

Chapter Four. The Abandonment of Public Space: Desegregation,Privatization,and the Tax Revolt

Chapter Five. The "Second Battle of Atlanta": Massive Resistance and the Divided Middle Class

Chapter Six. The Fight for "Freedom of Association": School Desegregation and White Withdrawal

Chapter Seven. Collapse of the Coalition: Sit-Ins and the Business Rebellion

Chapter Eight. "The Law of the Land": Federal Intervention and the Civil Rights Act

Chapter Nine. City Limits: Urban Separatism and Suburban Secession

Epilogue: The Legacies of White Flight

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9780691092607

0691092605

9781400848973

1400848970

OCLC:

854973318