01758nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100003200060245010100092260002700193300003000220520110600250650007101356773002701427906002201454942000701476952010501483  c528046d528046241105b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPuig, Luisa Godinez 959421  aWhite fortressing: How racial threat and conservatism lead to the formation of local governments  aUrban Affairs Review    a60(1), Jan, 2024: p.16-48  aA large body of research has shown that American politics have been highly influenced by conservative movements born in American White suburbia. Yet, suburbs are also moving left and becoming more diversified. I argue that this context has led to new cityhood movements in unincorporated areas of some regions of the US. By forming cities, unincorporated communities detach themselves from shared county-level authorities and the wider populations served in these jurisdictions. What triggers municipal incorporations today and how are recent incorporation movements different from those of the postwar era? To answer these questions, I conduct fieldwork in Georgia. I find that municipal incorporations are a modern type of segregation triggered by sentiments of racial threat and conservatism, which I call White fortressing. I update the study of government formation by analyzing a new wave of municipal incorporations and contribute to the literature works on White flight, racial threat, and residential segregation.- Reproduced 

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  aMunicipal incarnations, Racial segregation, Racial threat. 948572  aUrban Affairs Review    aURBAN DEVELOPMENT  cAR  00102ddc40709403125aIIPAbIIPAd2024-11-05h60(1), Jan, 2024: p.16-48pAR133474r2024-11-05yAR