Format:
1 online resource (318 pages)
ISBN:
9780820343280
Series Statement:
Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
Content:
Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of this moderate progressivism for which the city has long been credited. Civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and James Lawson who came into their own in Nashville were devoted to nonviolent direct action, or what Houston calls the "black Nashville Way." Through the dramatic story of Nashville's 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, Houston shows how these activists used nonviolence to disrupt the coercive script of day-to-day race relations. Nonviolence brought the threat of its opposite-white violence- into stark contrast, revealing that the Nashville Way was actually built on a complex relationship between etiquette and brute force. Houston goes on to detail how racial etiquette forged in the era of Jim Crow was updated in the civil rights era. Combined with this updated racial etiquette, deeper structural forces of politics and urban renewal dictate racial realities to this day. In The Nashville Way , Houston shows that white power was surprisingly adaptable. But the black Nashville Way also proved resilient as it was embraced by thousands of activists who continued to fight battles over schools, highway construction, and economic justice even after most Americans shifted their focus to southern hotspots like Birmingham and Memphis.
Content:
Intro -- THE NASHVILLE WAY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION The Nashville Way -- ONE A Manner of Segregation Lived Race Relations and Racial Etiquette -- TWO The Triumph of Tokenism Public School Desegregation -- THREE The Shame and the Glory The 1960 Sit-ins -- FOUR The Kingdom or Individual Desires? Movement and Resistance during the 1960s -- FIVE Black Power/White Power Militancy in Late 1960s Nashville -- SIX Cruel Mockeries Renewing a City -- EPILOGUE Achieving Justice -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Manner of Segregation -- Chapter 2. The Triumph of Tokenism -- Chapter 3. The Shame and the Glory -- Chapter 4. The Kingdom or Individual Desires? -- Chapter 5. Black Power/White Power -- Chapter 6. Cruel Mockeries -- Epilogue. Achieving Justice -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Manuscript and Archival Sources in Nashville -- Manuscript and Archival Sources Outside Nashville -- Oral History Collections -- Microfilm Collections -- Court Cases and Government Documents -- Miscellaneous -- Books, Scholarly Articles, and Other Scholarly Works -- INDEX -- POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820343266
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780820343266
Language:
English
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