The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97 - Softcover

Pride, Richard A.

 
9780252075940: The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252075943 ISBN 13: 9780252075940
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and political change. This book describes the public, personal, and meta-narratives of racial inequality that have competed for dominance in Mobile. Pride begins with a white liberal's quest to desegregate the city's public schools in 1955 and traces which narratives--those of biological inferiority, white oppression, the behavior and values of blacks, and others--came to influence public policy and opinion over four decades. Drawing on contemporaneous sources, he reconstructs the stories of demonstrations, civic forums, court cases, and school board meetings as citizens of Mobile would have experienced them, inviting readers to trace the story of desegregation in Mobile through the voices of politicians, protestors, and journalists and to determine which narratives were indeed most powerful.

Exploring who benefits and who pays when different narratives are accepted as true, Pride offers a step-by-step account of how Mobile's culture changed each time a new and more forceful narrative was used to justify inequality. More than a retelling of Mobile's story of desegregation, The Political Use of Racial Narratives promotes the value of rhetorical and narrative analysis in the social sciences and history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard A. Pride, professor emeritus of political science at Vanderbilt University, is the coauthor of The Burden of Busing: The Politics of Desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252075943
ISBN 13 
9780252075940
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
328
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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