Frederick M Wirt

We Ain't What We Was

Civil Rights in the New South

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Produktbeschreibung

"For years, Fred Wirt has been a sane, sensible, deeply insightful analyst of some of our nation's most complicated and controversial issues--those dealing with race, class, legal compulsion, and cultural change. He takes on all of those issues here in a book as wise as it is illuminating. It shows us to ourselves in a way that we can immediately comprehend but that suggests new possibilities and grander visions. This is simply a wonderful book."--Jennifer Hochschild, Princeton University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822318934
• ISBN-10: 0822318938
• Artikelnr.: 20957987

Autorenporträt

Frederick M. Wirt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books, including Schools in Conflict: The Politics of Education and The Politics of Southern Equality.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables ix
Foreword / Gary Orfield xi
Acknowledgments xv
Part I. The Context for Change 1
1. Setting the Community Scene 4
2. Regional Changes in the South, 1970–1990 16
3. Panola's Pre-1970 Response to Civil Rights 36
Part II. Institutional and Individual Changes in Panola 53
4. Local Politics and Black Empowerment 56
5. South Panola and Desegregation 84
6. Two Responses to Desegregation in North Panola 118
7. The Results for Students in Different Systems 142
8. The Local Economy and Political Regimes 157
Part III. Internal and External Concepts of Race and Law 193
9. Local Perspectives on Race and Law 194
10. The Theoretical Context of Race and Law 216
Appendices
A. Student Sense-of-Self Questionnaire 243
B. Regression Tables of Student Reponses 251
Notes 259
Index 283