{"product_id":"in-search-of-another-country-9780691140940","title":"In Search of Another Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. This work shows how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council Winner of the 2007 McLemore Prize for the Best Mississippi History Book \"In his study of Mississippi, Crespino provides a challenging, comprehensive examination of white southerners confronting the modern Civil Rights Movement. While focusing on the actions, strategies, and beliefs from the Brown v. Board of Education decision to the rise of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Crespino successfully reevaluates the perspective of southern whites beyond the Ku Klux Klan and those espousing virulent racism.\"--J. Michael Bitzer, Choice \"In this important and engagingly written book historian Joseph Crespino has examined Mississippi's white population and has discovered more complexity, and much more change over time, than Phil Ochs [in his biting anthem, 'Here's to the State of Mississippi'] would have thought possible.\"--Bruce Nelson, Journal of Southern History \"Elucidating the connection between modern conservatives who avow racial equality and the southern segregationists who so strongly resisted it, ... Crespino counters the facile historical claims of conservatives who identify their movement with the religious, nonviolent, and integrationist civil rights crusades of the 1950s and early 1960s.\"--Paul V. Murphy, American Historical Review \"Crespino navigates ... with consummate skill, offering clear understandings of state and national politics and basing his linkages of the two fields on solid evidence... In Search of Another Country is a stellar work of historical scholarship, powerfully researched, organized, and argued.\"--Peter N. Stearns, Journal of Social History \"In Search of Another Country is an excellent addition to the growing literature on the Republican counterrevolution in the American South. It is well researched and deftly argued. Although the layman might not appreciate its careful attention to detail, the specialist will. Indeed, it is a book that deserves a place on the shelf of every research library.\"--Barton C. Shaw, Journal of American Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables ix  Abbreviations xiii  Acknowledgments xv  INTRODUCTION 1  CHAPTER ONE: Practical Segregation 18  CHAPTER TWO: The Limits of Resistance 49  CHAPTER THREE: \"The Heartland of Conservative America\" 75  CHAPTER FOUR: Racial Troubleshooting 108  CHAPTER FIVE: The Ambivalence of White Christians 144  CHAPTER SIX: The Irony of School Desegregation 173  CHAPTER SEVEN: Southern Strategies in Mississippi 205  CHAPTER EIGHT: Mississippi Kulturkampf 237  CONCLUSION 267  Notes 279  Index 343","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403767259479,"sku":"9780691140940","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691140940.jpg?v=1730484484","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-another-country-9780691140940","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}