Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980In this nuanced look at white working class life and politics in twentieth century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challenging notions that the "white backlash" of the 1960s and 1970s was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr details the rise of a working class populism shaped by mistrust of the means and ends of postwar