Philadelphia Divided (eBook)

Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love

James Wolfinger (Autor)

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2011
336 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7810-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics. As racial divisions fractured the working class, he argues, Republican leaders exploited these racial fissures to reposition their party as the champion of ordinary white citizens besieged by black demands and overwhelmed by liberal government orders.By analyzing Philadelphias workplaces and neighborhoods, Wolfinger shows the ways in which politics played out on the personal level. Peoples experiences in their jobs and homes, he argues, fundamentally shaped how they thought about the crucial political issues of the day, including the New Deal and its relationship to the American people, the meaning of World War II in a country with an imperfect democracy, and the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s. As Wolfinger demonstrates, internal fractures in New Deal liberalism, the roots of modern conservatism, and the politics of race were all deeply intertwined. Their interplay highlights how the Republican Party reinvented itself in the mid-twentieth century by using race-based politics to destroy the Democrats' fledgling multiracial alliance while simultaneously building a coalition of its own.

Autor

James Wolfinger is associate professor of history and education at DePaul University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 24 illus., 6 tables, 6 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1944 Philadelphia transit strike • AFL • Albert Greenfield • American Politics • Arthur H. Fauset • CIO Transit Workers Union (TWU) • Conservatism • Crystal Bird Fauset/ Carolyn Moore • Democratic part • FEPC • Governor Leader • Levittown PA • Liberalism • <!--numerous other acronyms from the period--> • Mayor Clark • Mayor Dilworth • Mayor Lamberton • Mayor Samuels • NAACP • National Negro Congress • New Deal • PA Governor Dyff • PA Governor Martin • Philadelphia • Philadelphia Navy Yard • PTC (Philadelphia Transit Company) • Republican Party • Shipyard Homes • Suburbanization • Tuul
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-7810-3 / 0807878103
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7810-1 / 9780807878101