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ISBN10: 0691092605, ISBN13: 9780691092607, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Princeton University Press. New. Date: 2005. Hardcover. 0691092605 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, like new, pristine, never opened -- 352 pages. Publisher description: "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 ...