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Matthew Lassiter
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1999
Other U of M Affiliation:
Urban and Regional Planning
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2513 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-4618
E-mail:
mlassite@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
20th century United States, urban/suburban, political, social, Southern, popular culture
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Homepage:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/homepage.html |
Selected Publications:
Edited, with Andrew B. Lewis, The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (University Press of Virginia, 1999)
The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2006)
"The Suburban Origins of 'Color-Blind' Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis" Journal of Urban History (May 2004), 549-582
"Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar Political Culture,” in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, eds. Julian E. Zelizer, Meg Jacobs, and William Novak (Princeton University Press, 2003)
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Current Projects:
Book project, "The Suburban Crisis: The Pursuit, and Defense, of the American Dream," a wide-ranging study of post-1945 American suburbs, including chapters on film and fiction imagery; sprawl; the Christian Right; conflicts over busing, public housing, and school equalization; suburban panics; and electoral politics.
Article, "The Northern Strategy?: The Fate of Liberalism in New Jersey and Connecticut"
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