2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Making of Atlanta's Public Transit and the Atlanta Paradox in the Late 20th Century
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21710250
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Area studies
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| Research Institution | Saitama University |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYATA Ichiro 埼玉大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (80451730)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | アメリカ史 / 都市史 / アメリカ研究 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project is an attempt to show how in the 1960s and 1970s the privileged and the underprivileged tried to use urban development projects to build fairer relationships in post-war Atlanta. By looking at how such groups as affluent white homeowners, African-American domestic workers, environmentalists, and student activists supported public transit plan in the 1971 referendum, this project sheds light on how they overcame their differences to produce a consensus in support of the plan, yet how that same compromise also bore the origins of future conflict in the form of racial and class fissures. This later discord arose because each group, but particularly the privileged, understood the term public on their own terms and used it as a way to preserve their vested interests. Thus, this project contends that, despite its current reputation as a global city, Atlanta remains divided.
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[Remarks] Ichiro Miyata, Setting Atlanta in Motion : The Making and Unmaking of Atlanta's Public Transit, 1952-1981, Ph. D. diss., University of Georgia, 2010.
