The definitive history of the American South since World War II, offering a brisk, but comprehensive and authoritative narrative of politics, race, economics, and culture. In this superb volume, James C. Cobb provides the first truly comprehensive history of the South since World War II, brilliantly capturingan era of dramatic change, both in the South and in its relationship with therest of the nation. Here is a panoramic narrative that flows seamlessly from the Dixiecrats to the "southern strategy," to the South's domination of today's GOP, and from the national ascendance of southern culture and music, to a globalized Dixie's allure for foreign factories and a flood of immigrants, to the roles of women and an increasingly visible gay population in contemporary southern life. The heart of the book illuminates the struggle for Civil Rights. Jim Crow still towered over the South in1945, but Cobb shows that Pearl Harbor unloosed forces that would bring its ultimate demise. Growing black political clout outside the South and the contradiction of fighting racist totalitarianism abroad while tolerating it at home set the stage for returning black veterans to spearhead the NAACP'spostwar assault on the South's racial system. This assault sparked not only vocal white resistance but mounting violence that culminated in the murder of young Emmett Till in 1955. Energized rather than intimidated, however, blacksin Montgomery staged the famous bus boycott, bringing the Rev. Martin Luther King to the fore and paving the way for the dramatic protests and confrontations that finally brought profound racial changes as well as two-party politicsto the South. As he did in the prize-winning The Most Southern Place on Earth and Away Down South, Cobb writes with wit and grace, showing a thorough grasp of his native region. Exhaustively researched and brimming with original insights, The South and America Since World War II is indeed the definitive history of the postwar South and its changing role in national life. INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction CHAPTER 1 - The Post-War Assault on Jim Crow CHAPTER 2 - Massive Resistance and the Civil Rights Awakening CHAPTER 3 - From Farm to Factory and Town to City CHAPTER 4 - How the Civil Rights Movement <"Overcame>" CHAPTER 5 - The Politics of <"Backlash,>" North and South CHAPTER 6 - The South Rejoins the Union, and Vice-VersaCHAPTER 7 - Poverty, Power, and the Rise of the <"Southern Rim>" CHAPTER 8 - The Price of <"Progress>" in the Sunbelt South CHAPTER 9 - Women, Work, Politics, and the Problem of Change CHAPTER 10 - Whites, Blacks, and Southern Identity after Jim Crow CHAPTER 11 - Division and Diversity in the Contemporary South CHAPTER 12 - Why the South is Still America's <"Other>" NOTES
- ISBN: 978-0-19-516650-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés