Charlotte, NC

Cover, Title Page, Copyright

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Contents

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pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

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pp. vii-

Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City has truly been a collaborative enterprise, and the editors wish to express their deepest thanks to the book’s author team for their contributions and dedication to this project...

Maps

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pp. viii-x

Introduction. From Mill Town to Financial Capital: Charlotte’s Global Evolution

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pp. 1-9

Charlotte, North Carolina, is not a “global city.”¹ It is, however, a globalizing one. In less than four decades, Charlotte has transformed itself...

A Place to Come To

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pp. 10-23

In November 1986 the Southern Historical Association (SHA) held its annual convention in Charlotte. Comprised primarily of academics who either teach southern history or teach at southern institutions,...

Searching for Respect: From “New South” to “World Class” at the Crossroads of the Carolinas

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pp. 24-49

One way to tell that you’re from Buffalo,” the New York Times informed readers in 2000, “is that half of your friends moved to Charlotte, N.C., and the other half went to Raleigh.”¹ This gloomy joke that made...

Red Dust and Dynamometers: Charlotte as Memory and Knowledge Community in NASCAR

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pp. 50-86

On June 19, 1949, the Charlotte Speedway hosted NASCAR’s first official race of “strictly stock” cars, serving as the inaugural event for a division that ultimately grew into the prominent Sprint Cup Series...

Blending Southern Culture and International Finance: The Construction of a Global Money Center

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pp. 87-101

Two trillion dollars. The number, without additional scale, has little meaning. Two trillion dollars is roughly equal to the GNP of China and Canada combined. The number also approximates the total...

Beyond Local Markets: The Export Performance and Challenges of Charlotte Manufacturers

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pp. 102-118

The manufacturing sector has long been viewed as a catalyst for economic growth in the southern United States. For the past several decades, states, counties, and cities have regarded the manufacturing...

A Place for Old Mills in a New Economy: Textile Mill Reuse in Charlotte

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pp. 119-140

Textile mill reuse builds tangible bridges between Charlotte’s old nineteenth- and twentieth-century and new twenty-first-century economies. The place-defining continuity inherent in renewed functions...

Banking on the Neighborhood: Corporate Citizenship and Revitalization in Uptown Charlotte

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pp. 141-159

The good private or corporate citizen is imbued with [a] sense of charity —[a] sense of improving life for others while at the same time improving life for oneself.”¹ Corporate citizenship comes in many forms....

Developing a Typology of African American Neighborhoods in the American South: The Case of Charlotte

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pp. 160-188

African American neighborhoods of southern cities grew at a slower pace, from more varied spatial foundations, and under different social, economic, and historic conditions than did black neighborhoods...

Development and the Politics of School Desegregation and Resegregation

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pp. 189-219

These statements by two of Charlotte’s most preeminent business executives have been widely echoed by numerous other civic leaders as well as by virtually every journalist and scholar (including me) who has written...

Centers and Edges: The Confusion of Urban and Suburban Paradigms in Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Development Patterns

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pp. 220-246

The discussions in this chapter focus on two dichotomous types of urbanism within Charlotte, North Carolina, and its hinterland, and on the forces that create these distinct urban environments....

Salad-bowl Suburbs: A History of Charlotte’s East Side and South Boulevard Immigrant Corridors

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pp. 247-262

A surprising new residential pattern seems to be taking shape in American cities. Historically, dating back to the nineteenth century, newly arrived immigrants clustered in tight-packed inner-city neighborhoods,...

Mi Reina: Latino Landscapes in the Queen City (Charlotte, N.C.)

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pp. 263-283

It is late morning on a Thursday and I stop into a small convenience store to purchase an agua fresca (fruit-juice drink); I walk out with my drink in hand and a Club de Fútbol América cap...

Epilogue: Charlotte at the Globalizing Crossroads

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pp. 284-289

In his 1941 landmark book, The Mind of the South, W. J. Cash probed the intellectual and sociological roots of the New South.¹ Over the course of his analysis, Cash dismissed the importance and place of urbanization...

Contributors

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pp. 291-296

Index

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pp. 297-310