Legend of the Black Mecca (eBook)

Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta

Maurice J. Hobson (Autor)

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2017
336 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3536-1 (ISBN)

Infos

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "e;the black Mecca."e; Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between white progressives, business interests, and black Atlantans. But as Maurice J. Hobson demonstrates, Atlanta's political leadership--from the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, through the city's hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games--has consistently mishandled the black poor. Drawn from vivid primary sources and unnerving oral histories of working-class city-dwellers and hip-hop artists from Atlanta's underbelly, Hobson argues that Atlanta's political leadership has governed by bargaining with white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black Atlantans. In telling this history through the prism of the black New South and Atlanta politics, policy, and pop culture, Hobson portrays a striking schism between the black political elite and poor city-dwellers, complicating the long-held view of Atlanta as a mecca for black people.

Autor

Maurice J. Hobson is associate professor of African American studies at Georgia State University.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1996 Olympics Games • Affirmative Action • Andrew Young • Atlanta Committee on the Olympic Games • Atlanta Games • Atlanta Hustlers • Atlanta Negro Voters League • Atlanta Style of Bi-Racial Negotiation • atlanta university • Atlanta University Center • Atlanta Youth Murders • Auburn Avenue • Bat Patrol • Black Internationalism • black masses • Black Mecca • black middle class • Black New South • Bohanon • Booker T. Washington • brick • Bunnie Jackson-Ransom • Cameo • Central Atlanta Progress • City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Confederate Battle Flag • crack cocaine • Crazy Atlanta Nine • Democratic National Convention 1988 • Dirty South • Displacement • Dixie Hill Riots • Dungeon Family • First Class, Inc. • Freaknik • Gentrification • Globalism • Goodie Mob • Hartsfield International Airport • Henry Grady’s New South • Henry Grady’s New South • Herman Russell • Herman Talmadge • Hope VI • Horace E. Tate • Hotlanta • International Olympic Committee • Ivan Allen • Jimmy Carter • John Hope • John Wesley Dobbs • Kerner Report • LaFace Records • Leroy Johnson • Marta • Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. • Miami Boys • Morehouse College • Neoliberalism • Olympic Stadium • Olympification • Organized Noize • Outkast • Police brutality • Political Economy • Q.V. Williamson • Red Dogs • Rodney King Riots • Sam Massell • Sanitation Strikes • Sigidi Abdullah • S.O.S. Band • Soul Food • Southernplayalisticadillackmuzik • STOP Committee—Committee to Stop the Murders of Children • STOP Committee—Committee to Stop the Murders of Children • Storrs School • Summer Hill Riots • talented tenth • The Atlanta Plan • The Atlanta Project • The Atlanta Way • The City Too Busy to Hate • underclass • United States Olympic Committee • Urban renewal • Vine City • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • War on Drugs • Wayne Williams • W.E.B. Du Bois • Wesley Merritt • William Hartsfield • YEEk
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3536-4 / 1469635364
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3536-1 / 9781469635361