Screen LibrarySunbelt rising : the politics of space, place, and region /
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 live...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Politics and culture in modern america
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 8 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812209976 |
| Index Number: | F787 |
| CLC: | K712.9 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt / Chapter 2. Strom Thurmond s Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Rise of the Right / Chapter 3. Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt / Chapter 4. Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt / Chapter 5. From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles / Chapter 6. Sunbelt Civil Rights: Urban Renewal and the Follies of Desegregation in Greater Miami / Chapter 7. Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot / Chapter 8. Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max / Chapter 9. Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest / Chapter 10. Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities / Chapter 11. The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A / Chapter 12. Tortilla Politics: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt / Chapter 13. Latinos in the Sunbelt: Political Implications of Demographic Change / Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |