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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hobson, Maurice J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1900-2099
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > History.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Social conditions.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Economic conditions.
Noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Conditions économiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Atlanta (Ga.) > History > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > History > 21st century.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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