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Ronald Brownstein American Prospect : Kruse produces a panoramic and engaging portrayal of the struggle over desegregation [in Atlanta].
Jonathan Tilove Times-Picayune : A nuanced portrayal of the trends that fostered the growth of the suburbs and the casting aside of racist demagoguery.
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Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" : White Flight is a myth-shattering book. Focusing on the city that prided itself as 'too busy to hate,' Kevin Kruse reveals the everyday ways that middle-class whites in Atlanta resisted civil rights, withdrew from the public sphere, and in the process fashioned a new, grassroots, suburban-based conservatism. This important book has national implications for our thinking about the links between race, suburbanization, and the rise of the New Right.
Clifford Kuhn, Georgia State University : This is an imaginative work that ably treats an important subject. Kruse gets beyond and beneath Atlanta's image as a place of racial moderation, the national center of the civil rights movement, and a seedbed of black political power to reveal other simultaneous, important currents at work.
Dan Carter, University of South Carolina : In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.
Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill : Kevin Kruse recasts our understanding of the conservative resistance to the civil rights movement. Shifting the spotlight from racial extremists to ordinary white urban dwellers, he shows that "white flight" to the suburbs was among the most powerful social movements of our time. That movement not only reconfigured the urban landscape, it also transformed political ideology, laying the groundwork for the rise of the New Right and undermining the commitment of white Americans to the common good. No one can read this book and come away believing that the politics of suburbia are colorblind.
White Flight : Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America),Kevin M. Kruse,Princeton University Press,0691092605,20th century,African Americans,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,Atlanta,Conservatism,Georgia,History,History: American,Migrations,Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism,Segregation,United States - 20th Century,United States - General,United States - State & Local - South,Whites,American History,American history: postwar, from c 1945 -,History / United States / 20th Century,Political Science and International Relations
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