Review Essay : The Urbanization of DixieCLAUDIA DALE GOLDIN, Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860: A Quantitative History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xvi, 168, tables, figures, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $12.95 HOWARD N. RABINOWITZ, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1980 (Urban Life in American Series). New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xxii, 441, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $17.95 EUGENE J. WATTS, The Social Bases of City Politics: Atlanta 1865- 1903 (Contributions in American History, no. 73). Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. 188, tables, bibliography, index, $17.95 CARL V. HARRIS, Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (Twentieth-Century American Series). Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 318, tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. $14.50 DAVID R. GOLDFIELD, Urban Growth in the Age of Sectionalism: Virginia, 1847-1861. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1977. Pp. xxxii. 336, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. $17.50. BLAINE A. BROWNELL, The Urban Ethos in the South, 1920-1930. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1975. Pp. xxi, 238, tables, bibliography, index. $12.50