White Flight (July 9, 2007 edition) | Open Library

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as “The City Too Busy to Hate,” a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: “The City Too Busy Moving to Hate.” — Princeton University Press

Haven’t yet finished, slowly reading it along other things. It’s dense but very interesting.

Outlines a history of white flight, the dissolution of community, and withdraw from and abandonment of public space in response to desegregation in Atlanta.

Frames up Atlanta as a microcosm for much more generalizable issues that we’re still dealing with, and this premise feels very illuminating.

Explores complex systemic issues that are forming latticework for many of my other thoughts about anti-racism, community building, and creating a just and free society.