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- **Event Name**: Entrepreneurial Appetite Presents:  The Legend of the Black Mecca
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Jul, 2020 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 30 Jul, 2020 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: A discussion with Dr. Maurice J. Hobson  author of The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta.About this EventEntrepreneur: One who undertakesIn the next installment of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions,  we will talk about The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta  by Maurice J. Hobson.  For those of us not from or living in one of the  few Black Meccas in the United States, we hope this book will encourage us to think critically about creating our own. About the Book:For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between white progressives, business interests, and black Atlantans. But as Maurice J. Hobson demonstrates, Atlanta's political leadership--from the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, through the city's hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games--has consistently mishandled the black poor. Drawn from vivid primary sources and unnerving oral histories of working-class city-dwellers and hip-hop artists from Atlanta's underbelly, Hobson argues that Atlanta's political leadership has governed by bargaining with white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black Atlantans.In telling this history through the prism of the black New South and Atlanta politics, policy, and pop culture, Hobson portrays a striking schism between the black political elite and poor city-dwellers, complicating the long-held view of Atlanta as a mecca for black people.  About the Author:Dr. Maurice Hobson is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Historian at Georgia State University. He earned the Ph.D. degree in History, focusing in African American History and 20th Century U.S. History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are grounded in the fields of African American history, 20th Century U.S. history, comparative labor, African American studies, oral history and ethnography, urban and rural history, political economy, and popular cultural studies. For those making donations, a special discount code will be provided to purchase the book from the UNC press.  The book can be purchased at:https://uncpress.org/book/9781469654751/the-legend-of-the-black-mecca/ www.amazon.com  www. barnesandnoble.com https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/d6ad1d70-d180-11ea-be1a-cdb6f93da770-rimg-w720-h720-gmir.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Q9FszTiK0
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- **Q**: When and where is Entrepreneurial Appetite Presents:  The Legend of the Black Mecca being held?
  - **A:** Entrepreneurial Appetite Presents:  The Legend of the Black Mecca takes place on Thu, 30 Jul, 2020 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 30 Jul, 2020 at 08:00 pm at Online.
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