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Sunbelt Rising – The Politics of Space, Place, and Region: Politics and Culture in Modern America

Autor Michelle Nickerson, Darren Dochuk
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2014
This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan.
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ISBN-13: 9780812223002
ISBN-10: 0812223004
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 177 x 225 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Politics and Culture in Modern America


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Introduction I. CONSTRUCTING REGION Chapter 1. Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt -Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Chapter 2. Strom Thurmond's Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Rise of the Right -Joseph Crespino Chapter 3. Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt -Matthew D. Lassiter Chapter 4. Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt -Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth II. CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SUNBELT Chapter 5. From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles -Shana Bernstein Chapter 6. Sunbelt Civil Rights: Urban Renewal and the Follies of Desegregation in Greater Miami -N. D. B. Connolly Chapter 7. Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot -Daniel Martinez HoSang III. CONTINGENT PLACES Chapter 8. Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max -Volker Janssen Chapter 9. Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest -Andrew Needham Chapter 10. Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities -Carl Abbott PART IV. THE GLOBAL SUNBELT Chapter 11. The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, and the Sunbelt South -Darren E. Grem Chapter 12. Tortilla Politics: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt -Laresh Jayasanker Chapter 13. Latinos in the Sunbelt: Political Implications of Demographic Change -Sylvia Manzano Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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