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By David Goldfield
For greater than 25 years, historian David Goldfield has interpreted southern city heritage for varied audiences. This choice of 11 of Goldfield's most sensible articles-- 4 unseen until eventually now--discusses the commercial value of the South's small antebellum towns, the effect of global battle II on southern towns, black political energy, caliber of existence, and lots more and plenty extra .
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Atlanta, the quintessential New South city, incessantly promotes Tara and "Gone with the Wind" memorabilia, and at the New York Coffee Shop in Houston, grits appear on a kosher menu together with jalapeño bagels. The urban South has slid into multiculturalism without self-righteous fanfare, absorbing it as it has absorbed so much else. Shirley Abbott had it right when she admitted that "lately I go home in panic, for fear the South is gone. . "16 In the end, that's what keeps me excited about the urban South.
6. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936; rpr. New York, 1972), 174. Page 5 States, if not the world. Second, southern cities are intimately connected with the South, and distinctions in development, institutions, and people derive in great part from their regional affiliation. 7 I uncovered an urban life in the largest slaveholding state in the nation that included functions, infrastructure, and institutions common to most American cities of the time. In other words, Virginia's cities were part of a vast urbanizing nation.
The civil rights movement took shape during and immediately after the war. And a new generation of urban leader emerged, dedicated more to economic development than to retaining white supremacy. 11. David R. Goldfield, Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present (Baton Rouge, 1990). Page 11 Whereas my essay on World War II anticipated the racial accommodation that followed, the article on black political power in the urban South looked at one of the results of that accommodationvoting rights.