{"product_id":"race-and-the-greening-of-atlanta-inequality-democracy-and-environmental-politics-in-an-ascendant-metropolis-9780820344089","title":"Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis","description":"\u003cp\u003eRace and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta's ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city's variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for civil rights and a lesser known one on behalf of \"the\u003cbr\u003eenvironment.\" Arising out of Atlanta's Black and white middle classes respectively, both movements owed much to New Deal capitalism's undermining of concentrated wealth and power, if not racial segregation, in the Jim Crow South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlacing these two movements on the same historical page, Christopher C. Sellers spotlights those environmental inequities, ideals, and provocations that catalyzed their divergent political projects. He then follows the intermittent, sometimes vital alliances they struck as civil rights activists tackled poverty, as a new environmental state arose, and as Black politicians began winning elections. Into the 1980s, as a wealth-concentrating style\u003cbr\u003eof capitalism returned to the city and Atlanta became a national \"poster child\" for sprawl, the seedbeds spread both for a national environmental justice movement and for an influential new style of antistatism. Sellers contends that this new conservativism, sweeping the South with an antienvironmentalism and budding white nationalism that echoed the region's Jim Crow past, once again challenged the democracy Atlantans had achieved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTOPHER C. SELLERS is professor of history at Stony Brook University. He is the author or coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHazards of the Job \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCrabgrass Crucible \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDangerous Trade\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including those from the National Science Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Library of Medicine. He lives in Stony Brook, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534518161682,"sku":"9780820344089","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a758c42d-3892-49d5-a0b3-3ffcacf9e10e.jpg?v=1731427836","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/race-and-the-greening-of-atlanta-inequality-democracy-and-environmental-politics-in-an-ascendant-metropolis-9780820344089","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}