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Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
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Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
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by Kenneth D. Durr
Sales Rank : 441067
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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press January 17, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807827649
ISBN-13: 978-0807827642
Product Dimensions:
9.7 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"A substantial addition to the literature on working-class politics, the white backlash, the decline of the New Deal coalition, and the Democratic Party's loss of connection with working-class, urban, ethnic voters in the period from 1940 to 1980.
(Ronald P. Formisano, author of Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s)"
Product Description
In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II.
Challenging notions that the "white backlash" of the 1960s and 1970s was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr details the rise of a working-class populism shaped by mistrust of the means and ends of postwar liberalism in the face of urban decline. Exploring the effects of desegregation, deindustrialization, recession, and the rise of urban crime, Durr shows how legitimate economic, social, and political grievances convinced white working-class Baltimoreans that they were threatened more by the actions of liberal policymakers than by the incursions of urban blacks.
While acknowledging the parochialism and racial exclusivity of white working-class life, Durr adopts an empathetic view of workers and their institutions. Behind the Backlash melds ethnic, labor, and political history to paint a rich portrait of urban life--and the sweeping social and economic changes that reshaped America's cities and politics in the late twentieth century.
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