The Legend of the Black Mecca : Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta /

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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 "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hobson, Maurice J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Noirs americains > Georgie (État) > Atlanta > Conditions economiques.
Noirs americains > Georgie (État) > Atlanta > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains > Georgie (État) > Atlanta > Histoire.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Social conditions.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > History.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Atlanta (Ga.) > History > 21st century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Building black Atlanta and the dialectics of the black mecca
  • The brawn of the black mecca and the black New South: Maynard Jackson, racial symbolism, and economic realities
  • The sorrow of a city: collisions in class and counter narratives through the Atlanta youth murders
  • The bravado of the black mecca and blackness abroad: Andrew Young and black international citizenship
  • Speaking to the spirit of the games: Atlanta's rise to Olympic city
  • The sound of the fury: the Olympic city through the prism of black Atlanta's expressive culture.

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