In Search of Another Country : : Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution / / Joseph Crespino.
In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of them...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Practical Segregation -- CHAPTER TWO The Limits of Resistance -- CHAPTER THREE "The Heartland of Conservative America" -- CHAPTER FOUR Racial Troubleshooting -- CHAPTER FIVE The Ambivalence of White Christians -- CHAPTER SIX The Irony of School Desegregation -- CHAPTER SEVEN Southern Strategies in Mississippi -- CHAPTER EIGHT Mississippi Kulturkampf -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index -- POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA |
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