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The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is exceptional among American cities for the claims of its elites and boosters that it is a city with no limits and a city with no history. Home to the Dallas Cowboys, self-styled as Americas Team, setting for the television series that glamorized its values of self-invention and success, and site of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas looms disproportionately large in the American imagination. Yet it lacks an identity of its own. In The Dallas Myth, Harvey J. Graff presents a novel interpretation of a city that has proudly declared its freedom from the past. He scrutinizes the citys origin myth and its governance ideology, known as the Dallas Way, looking at how these elements have shaped Dallas and served to limit democratic participation and exacerbate inequality. Advancing beyond a traditional historical perspective, Graff proposes an original, integrative understanding of the citys urban fabric and offers an explicit critique of the reactionary political foundations of modern its tolerance for right-wing political violence, the endemic racism and xenophobia, and a planning model that privileges growth and monumental

Author

Graff, Harvey J.

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816652693

Subjects

History, Humanities