White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism Paperback - 2007
by Kevin M. Kruse
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"In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history."--Dan Carter, University of South Carolina
"White Flight is a myth-shattering book. Focusing on the city that prided itself as 'too busy to hate, ' Kevin Kruse reveals the everyday ways that middle-class whites in Atlanta resisted civil rights, withdrew from the public sphere, and in the process fashioned a new, grassroots, suburban-based conservatism. This important book has national implications for our thinking about the links between race, suburbanization, and the rise of the New Right."--Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis
"This is an imaginative work that ably treats an important subject. Kruse gets beyond and beneath Atlanta's image as a place of racial moderation, the national center of the civil rights movement, and a seedbed of black political power to reveal other simultaneous, important currents at work."--Clifford Kuhn, Georgia State University
"Kevin Kruse recasts our understanding of the conservative resistance to the civil rights movement. Shifting the spotlight from racial extremists to ordinary white urban dwellers, he shows that "white flight" to the suburbs was among the most powerful social movements of our time. That movement not only reconfigured the urban landscape, it also transformed political ideology, laying the groundwork for the rise of the New Right and undermining the commitment of white Americans to the common good. No one can read this book and come away believing that the politics of suburbia are colorblind."--Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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- Title White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
- Author Kevin M. Kruse
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 2007-07-29
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691133867 / 0691133867
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.31 x 0.81 in (23.22 x 16.03 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Georgia
- Locality: Atlanta, Georgia
- Library of Congress subjects Atlanta (Ga.) - Race relations, African Americans - Segregation - Georgia -
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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