In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative CounterrevolutionPrinceton University Press, 2007 - 360 páginas In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of themselves and their country, one so persuasive that by 1980 they had become important players in Ronald Reagan's newly ascendant Republican Party. In this ambitious reassessment of racial politics in the deep South, Joseph Crespino reveals how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Crespino explains how white Mississippians linked their fight to preserve Jim Crow with other conservative causes--with evangelical Christians worried about liberalism infecting their churches, with cold warriors concerned about the Communist threat, and with parents worried about where and with whom their children were schooled. Crespino reveals important divisions among Mississippi whites, offering the most nuanced portrayal yet of how conservative southerners bridged the gap between the politics of Jim Crow and that of the modern Republican South. This book lends new insight into how white Mississippians gave rise to a broad, popular reaction against modern liberalism that recast American politics in the closing decades of the twentieth century. |
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... Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms advertisement ( Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History ) 94 4.1 Paul Johnson inauguration , January 1963 ( Courtesy of McCain Library and Archives , University of ...
... Committee of Concern church dedication ( Courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives and History ) 138 150 5.2 Children at " Strike City " tent encampment near Greenville , Mississippi ( Courtesy of Paul Fusco and Magnum Photos ) 162 ...
... Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms Child Development of Group of Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations Congress of Racial Equality Community Relations Service Daughters of the American Revolution Freedom of Choice in ...
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Contenido
Practical Segregation | 18 |
The Limits of Resistance | 49 |
The Heartland of Conservative America | 75 |
Racial Troubleshooting | 108 |
The Ambivalence of White Christians | 144 |
The Irony of School Desegregation | 173 |
Southern Strategies in Mississippi | 205 |
Mississippi Kulturkampf | 237 |
CONCLUSION | 267 |
Notes | 279 |
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In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Joseph Crespino Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Joseph Crespino Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
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