Shades of the Sunbelt : essays on ethnicity, race, and the urban South / edited by Randall M. Miller and George E. Pozzetta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Randall M.

Pozzetta, George E.

Series:

Contributions in American history 0084-9219 ; no. 128.

Contributions in American history. 0084-9219 ; no. 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Sunbelt States.

Ethnicity.

Urbanization--Sunbelt States.

Urbanization.

Sunbelt States--Ethnic relations.

Sunbelt States.

Sunbelt States--Race relations.

Sunbelt States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.

Summary:

This collection of original essays represents the first scholarly effort to examine the variety of ethnic and urban experiences that have characterized the post-World War II South. It goes beyond anything else in print in suggesting regional patterns and providing comparative models with other sections of the nation. A distinctive feature of this timely work is its treatment of various ethnic groups in southern cities, including Jews, Italians, Cubans, Haitians, and Canadians, and the integration of these groups into the emerging Sunbelt society of today. The essays provide a preliminary reconnaissance into some of the more important issues and pose questions, focus attention, and encourage fresh approaches to the study of a subject of immediate public significance, both to the region and, as the Sunbelt grows in numbers and influence, to the nation as well.

Contents:

The development of the modern urban South / Randall M. Miller

The palmetto and the maple leaf / Robert F. Harney

Jewish migration to the Sunbelt / Deborah Dash Moore

Ethnicity, urbanization, and historical consciousness in Savannah / Gary W. McDonogh

Race, ethnicity, and women's lives in the urban South / Julia Kirk Blackwelder

The changing face of neighborhoods in Memphis and Richmond, 1940-1985 / Christopher Silver

Race, ethnicity, and political change in the urban Sunbelt South / Ronald H. Bayor

Ethnic politics in Miami, 1960-1986 / Raymond A. Mohl / From Dixie to Dreamland / Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino

Migration to the urban South / George E. Pozzetta.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 207-213.

ISBN:

031325690X

OCLC:

16871838