1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457223203321

Autore

Ward Jason Morgan

Titolo

Defending white democracy [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a segregationist movement and the remaking of racial politics, 1936-1965 / / Jason Morgan Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4696-1387-5

1-4696-0254-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

305.800975

Soggetti

Segregation - Southern States - History - 20th century

Segregation - Political aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century

White people - Southern States - Politics and government - 20th century

White people - Southern States - Attitudes - History - 20th century

African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History

Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century

Government, Resistance to - Southern States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Race relations History 20th century

Southern States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Agitating falsely the race problem -- The white south's "double V" -- From white supremacists to "segregationists" -- Nationalizing race and southernizing freedom -- The rhetoric of responsible resistance -- The southern "minority" and the silent majority.

Sommario/riassunto

"After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight. Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement committed to preserving the "southern way of life" through a campaign of massive resistance. In Defending White Democracy, Jason Morgan Ward reconsiders the origins of this white resistance, arguing that southern



conservatives began mobilizing against civil rights some years earlier, in the era before World War II, when the New Deal politics of the mid-1930s threatened the monopoly on power that whites held in the South. As Ward shows, years before "segregationist" became a badge of honor for civil rights opponents, many white southerners resisted racial change at every turn--launching a preemptive campaign aimed at preserving a social order that they saw as under siege. By the time of the Brown decision, segregationists had amassed an arsenal of tested tactics and arguments to deploy against the civil rights movement in the coming battles. Connecting the racial controversies of the New Deal era to the more familiar confrontations of the 1950s and 1960s, Ward uncovers a parallel history of segregationist opposition that mirrors the new focus on the long civil rights movement and raises troubling questions about the enduring influence of segregation's defenders. "--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813150403321

Autore

Velychenko Stephen

Titolo

State building in revolutionary Ukraine : a comparative study of governments and bureaucrats, 1917-1922 / / Stephen Velychenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-8684-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Disciplina

320.9477/09041

Soggetti

Public administration - Ukraine - History - 20th century

Comparative government

History

Electronic books.

Ukraine Politics and government 1917-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ukrainians and Government Bureaucracy before 1917 -- Bureaucracy



Law and Parties in Ukrainian Thought -- The Central Rada, March 1917 to April 1918 -- The Ukrainian State, April to December 1918 -- The Directory, December 1918 to November 1919 -- Bureaucrats and Bolsheviks in Russia -- Bureaucrats Bolsheviks and Whites in Ukraine -- The Western Ukranian National Republic, November 1918 to October 1920 -- Bureaucrats in Other New European Governments.

Sommario/riassunto

Stephen Velychenko compares Ukrainian efforts to create an independent national government with the analogous successful efforts made in Russia, Poland, Ireland and Czechoslovakia. He questions the notion that Ukrainian attempts at national independence failed because its society was 'incomplete' and its leaders unable to organize an effective administration. Pointing out that Bolshevik administrations at the time were no more effective in implementing policies than their rivals, Velychenko argues that more effective governance was not one of the reasons for the Russian Bolshevik victory in Ukraine."--Pub. desc.

"State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine examines six attempts to create governments on Ukrainian territories between 1917 and 1922. Focusing on how political leaders formed and staffed administrations, this study shows that in Ukraine during this time, there was an available pool of able administrators sufficiently competent in Ukrainian to work as bureaucrats in the independent national governments. These people could sometimes implement policies, a significant accomplishment in light of the upheavals of the time.