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ISBN:
9780691250298
Serie:
Politics and Society in Modern America
Inhalt:
" The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The hillbilly highway was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway , Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture8212 from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives. The book draws on a diverse range of sources8212 from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music8212 to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transappalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest8212 bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present. The compelling story of an important and neglected chapter in American history, Hillbilly Highway upends conventional wisdom about the enduring political and cultural consequences of the great migration of white southerners in the twentieth century. "
Inhalt:
Biographisches: " Max Fraser is assistant professor of history at the University of Miami. A former journalist, he has written for the Nation and other publications." Rezension(2): " Lily Geismer, author of Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality :This remarkably wide-ranging and beautifully written book attacks head-on the accounts of the 'hillbilly' popularized by J. D. Vance and others and provides a fundamental reorientation of twentieth-century political, labor, and urban history. In doing so, Max Fraser offers important new insights that help explain the long roots of illiberalism among a group that has become ever more important to the political and economic story of the present."
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Englisch
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