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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... School Desegregation 173 CHAPTER SEVEN Southern Strategies in Mississippi 205 CHAPTER EIGHT Mississippi Kulturkampf 237 CONCLUSION 267 Notes 279 Index 343 ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES FIGURES I.1 Ronald and Nancy Reagan at.
... integration , white leaders in the state initiated a subtle and strategic accommodation to the demands of civil rights ... desegregation efforts , who wanted to determine where and with whom their children went to school . Many white ...
... school desegregation efforts , or rewriting state voting laws in ways that would dilute the power of black voters . Examining the strategic accommodations of Mississippi's white leaders yields a variety of important insights . For one ...
... schools . This was a battle that grew directly out of civil rights struggles in the state in the 1960s . African ... school desegregation policy — a campaign that directly fed the populist reactionary backlash against busing in the ...
... school desegregation , the Nixon administration offered little actual relief . Mississippi Republicans gained ... schools is one important example of how white Mississippians gained a new platform from which to denounce fundamental ...
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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 |
343 | |
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In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Joseph Crespino Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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