The New Suburban History

by Kruse, Kevin M.

• ISBN13: 9780226456638
• ISBN10: 0226456633
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The New Suburban History rejects the popular image of suburbs as conformist and conflict-free havens, revealing that their seemingly calm streets have long been battlegrounds over race, class, and politics. With this collection, Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue argue that suburbia must be understood as a central factor in the modern American experience.

Author Biography

Kevin M. Kruse is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Thomas J. Sugrue is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The New Suburban History	p. 1
Marketing the Free Market: State Intervention and the Politics of Prosperity in Metropolitan America	p. 11
Less Than Plessy: The Inner City, Suburbs, and State-Sanctioned Residential Segregation in the Age of Brown	p. 33
Uncovering the City in the Suburb: Cold War Politics, Scientific Elites, and High-Tech Spaces	p. 57
How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs: Urban Scholars and Changing Perceptions of Authentic Community	p. 80
"The House I Live In": Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States	p. 99
"Socioeconomic Integration" in the Suburbs: From Reactionary Populism to Class Fairness in Metropolitan Charlotte	p. 120
Prelude to the Tax Revolt: The Politics of the "Tax Dollar" in Postwar California	p. 144
Suburban Growth and Its Discontents: The Logic and Limits of Reform on the Postwar Northeast Corridor	p. 161
Reshaping the American Dream: Immigrants, Ethnic Minorities, and the Politics of the New Suburbs	p. 183
The Legal Technology of Exclusion in Metropolitan America	p. 205
Notes	p. 221
Contributors	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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