Format:
Online-Ressource (480 p)
ISBN:
9780812243093
Series Statement:
Politics and Culture in Modern America
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Constructing Region -- 1 Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt -- 2 Strom Thurmond's Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Rise of the Right -- 3 Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt -- 4 Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt -- Part II. Civil Rights in the Sunbelt -- 5 From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles -- 6 Sunbelt Civil Rights: Urban Renewal and the Follies of Desegregation in Greater Miami -- 7 Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot -- Part III. Contingent Places -- 8 Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max -- 9 Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest -- 10 Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities -- Part IV. The Global Sunbelt -- 11 The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A -- 12 Tortilla Politics: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt -- 13 Latinos in the Sunbelt: Political Implications of Demographic Change -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I. Constructing Region""; ""1 Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt""; ""2 Strom Thurmond's Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Rise of the Right""; ""3 Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt""; ""4 Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt""; ""Part II. Civil Rights in the Sunbelt""; ""5 From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles""
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""6 Sunbelt Civil Rights: Urban Renewal and the Follies of Desegregation in Greater Miami""""7 Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot""; ""Part III. Contingent Places""; ""8 Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max""; ""9 Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest""; ""10 Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities""; ""Part IV. The Global Sunbelt""; ""11 The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A""
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""12 Tortilla Politics: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt""""13 Latinos in the Sunbelt: Political Implications of Demographic Change""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Acknowledgments""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812209976
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812243093
Additional Edition:
Print version Sunbelt Rising : The Politics of Space, Place, and Region
Language:
English
Keywords:
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