The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3VZYYK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 281 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maurice J. Hobson is assistant professor of African American studies and history at Georgia State University.
But as Maurice J. 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 flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between white progressives, business interests, and black Atlantans. Hobson demonstrates, Atlanta's political leadership--from the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, through the city's hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games--has consistently mishandl
Maurice Hobson keeps it real in this post–civil rights history of black Atlanta. The ironies are deliciously delectable and debatable. Hobson's history of Atlanta is not simply regional; it is a national story of neoliberal politics at the expense of the poor.--Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the MovementIn this extensive study of the evolution of black Atlanta, Hobson uncovers and closely examines the black Mecca trope and offers a much more nuanced and interesting narrative of Atlanta's history than the ones we are so accustomed to hearing."—Derrick P. He excavates the political contradictions in the city's politics by revealing what Atlanta's hip hop community dubbed the Dirty South. Here's a history where Outkast and Goodie Mob meets Atlanta's black mayors. Alridge, University of Virginia