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For more than 25 years, historian David Goldfield has interpreted southern urban history for various audiences. This collection of eleven of Goldfields best articles-- four unseen until now--discusses the economic importance of the Souths small antebellum cities, the impact of World War II on southern cities, black political power, quality of life, and much more .

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title:Region, Race, and Cities : Interpreting the Urban South
author:Goldfield, David R.
publisher:Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin:0807121894
print isbn13:9780807121894
ebook isbn13:9780585284736
language:English
subjectCities and towns--Southern States--History, Southern States--Race relations.
publication date:1997
lcc:HT123.5.S6G65 1997eb
ddc:307.76/0975
subject:Cities and towns--Southern States--History, Southern States--Race relations.
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Region Race and Cities
Interpreting the Urban South
David Goldfield
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Copyright 1997 by Louisiana State University Press
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Some of the essays herein were first published, in somewhat different form, as follows: "A Regional Framework for the Urban South" (as "The Urban South: A Regional Framework"), American Historical Review, LXXXVI (1981), 100934, 1981 by the American Historical Association; "Urban-Rural Relations in Old Virginia" (as ''Urban-Rural Relations in the Old South: The Example of Virginia"), Journal of Urban History, II, No. 2, pp. 14667, 1976 by Sage Publications, Inc., reprinted by permission of Sage Publications; "Black Life in Old South Cities," in Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South, ed. Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., with Kym S. Rice (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991), 12353; "Black Political Power and Public Policy in the Urban South," in Urban Policy in Twentieth-Century America, ed. Arnold R. Hirsch and Raymond A. Mohl (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993), 15981; "Cities in the Old South" (as "Pursuing the American Urban Dream: Cities in the Old South"), in The City in Southern History: The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South, ed. Blaine A. Brownell and David R. Goldfield (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1977), 5291; "Education, Equity, and Quality of Life in the Sun Belt South" (as "Economic Development in the South: Education, Equity, and the Quality of Life"), in Education, Environment and Culture: The Quality of Life in the South (Research Triangle Park, N.C.: 1986 Commission on the Future of the South), 1317; "The City as Southern History" (as "The City as Southern History: The Past and the Promise of Tomorrow"), in The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 1148. "Jews, Blacks, and Southern Whites" was originally published as "A Sense of Place: Blacks, Jews, and White Gentiles in the American South" in Southern Cultures (March, 1997). Copyright by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Goldfield, David R., 1944
Region, race, and cities : interpreting the urban South / David R.
Goldfield.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8071-2189-4 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-8071-2244-0 (pbk.:
alk. paper).
1. Cities and townsSouthern StatesHistory. 2. Southern
StatesRace relations. I. Title.
HT123.5.S6G65 1997
307.76'0975dc21 97-18547
CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.Picture 3
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Introduction: The Making of a Southern Urban Historian
1
I. Region
The Origins of Southern Regionalism
17
A Regional Framework for the Urban South
37
Urban-Rural Relations in Old Virginia
69
From Boondock to Buckhead in Southern Literature
87
II. Race
Black Life in Old South Cities
103
Jews, Blacks, and Southern Whites
145
Black Political Power and Public Policy in the Urban South
163
III. Cities
Cities in the Old South
189
The Urban South in World War II
247
Education, Equity, and Quality of Life in the Sun Belt South
260
The City as Southern History
267
Index
305

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