The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3VZYYK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 Atlanta's history than the ones we are so accustomed to hearing."—Derrick P. Maurice Hobson keeps it real in this post–civil rights history of black Atlanta. The ironies are deliciously delectable and debatable. Alridge, University of Virginia. He excavates the political contradictions in the city's politics by revealing what Atlanta's hip hop community dubbed the Dirty South
Drawn from vivid primary sources and unnerving oral histories of working-class city-dwellers and hip-hop artists from Atlanta's underbelly, Hobson argues that Atlanta's political leadership has governed by bargaining with white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black Atlantans. 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. 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. 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 Ol
. Maurice J. Hobson is assistant professor of African American studies and history at Georgia State University