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The Nashville Way : Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City /

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. The author offers this scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville...

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Autor principal: Houston, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : The Nashville Way -- A Manner of Segregation : Lived Race Relations and Racial Etiquette -- The Triumph of Tokenism : Public School Desegregation -- The Shame and the Glory : The 1960 Sit-ins -- The Kingdom or Individual Desires? : Movement and Resistance during the 1960s -- Black Power/White Power : Militancy in Late 1960s Nashville -- Cruel Mockeries : Renewing a City -- Epilogue : Achieving Justice. 
520 |a 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. The author offers this scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing 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 the author calls the "black Nashville Way." Through the dramatic story of Nashville's 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, the author 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. The author 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 into the twenty-first century. In this book, the author 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. 
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