The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South) by Benjamin Houston ISBN 13: 9780820343266

University of Georgia Press, 2012-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. University of Georgia Press, 2012. Hard cover, first edition. VG condition with no dust jacket; a nice clean copy.

Hardback. New. Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout the city's amicable race relations. Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of its moderate progressivism.

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New. Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of this moderate progressivism for which the city has long been credited. Civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and James Lawson who came into their own in Nashville were devoted to nonviolent direct action, or what Houston calls the "black Nashville Way." Through the dramatic story of Nashville's 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, Houston shows how these activists used nonviolence to disrupt the coercive script of day-to-day race relations. Nonviolence brought the threat of its opposite-white violence- into stark contrast, revealing that the Nashville Way was actually built on a complex relationship between… Read More

Univ of Georgia Pr, 2012. Hardcover. New. 344 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.