The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3VZYYK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maurice J. . Hobson is assistant professor of African American studies and history at Georgia State University
Alridge, University of Virginia. The ironies are deliciously delectable and debatable. Maurice Hobson keeps it real in this post–civil rights history of black Atlanta. 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. 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
In telling this history through the prism of the black New South and Atlanta politics, policy, and pop culture, Hobson portrays a striking schism between the black political elite and poor city-dwellers, complicating the long-held view of Atlanta as a mecca for black people.. 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 coalit