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The Politics of White Rights - Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools (Hardcover)
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The Politics of White Rights - Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.
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In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history
of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the
malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the
litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how
to fashion a more subtle defense of white privilege, placing them
in the vanguard of a new conservatism oriented toward the Sunbelt,
not the South. Scholars have recently begun uncovering the ways in
which segregationists abandoned violent backlash and overt economic
reprisal and learned how to rearticulate their resistance and blind
others to their racial motivations. Bagley is most interested in a
creedal commitment to maintaining "law and order," which lay at the
heart of this transition. Before it was a buzz phrase meant to
conjure up fears of urban black violence, "law and order"
represented a politics that allowed self-styled white moderates to
begrudgingly accept token desegregation and to begin to stake their
own claims to constitutional rights without forcing them to
repudiate segregation or white supremacy. Federal courts have, as
recently as 2014, agreed that Alabama's property tax system is
crippling black education. Bagley argues that this is because, in
the late 1960s, the politics of law and order became a politics of
white rights, which supported not only white flight to suburbs and
private schools but also nominally color-blind changes in the
state's tax code. These changes were designed to shield white money
from the needs of increasingly black public education. Activists
and courts have been powerless to do anything about them, because
twenty years of desperate litigious combat finally taught Alabama
lawmakers how to erect constitutional bulwarks that could withstand
a legal assault.
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