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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 63
... sippi , for a much different reason . In 1980 , Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair . Addressing a crowd of more than fifteen thousand enthusiastic supporters , Reagan invoked a mantra that had ...
... sippi , was an eyewitness to the Citizens ' Council's reign of intimidation from the Brown decision through the mid - 1960s ; his outspoken denuncia- tion of racial hysteria in the state led Mississippi officials to make repeated ...
... sippi's singularity as a rural cancer - spot of bigotry isolated from an ur- banizing , progressive America , " wrote one reviewer of the 1966 revised edition . " It is now clear that there is a bit of Mississippi in the heart of every ...
... sippi — to more subtle , color - blind political language.19 When they opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act , Mississippi segregationists who helped coordi- nate the lone lobby against the bill did not argue publicly that it threatened the ...
... sippi , whites could and did distinguish between white - flight private schools — or " segregation academies " —and schools founded by Christian parents trying to provide a holistic religious orientation for their child's education . By ...
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 |
343 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
Referencias a este libro
Carry it on: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama ... Susan Youngblood Ashmore Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Carry it on: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama ... Susan Youngblood Ashmore Vista previa limitada - 2008 |