Chocolate Cities

The Black Map of American Life

AvMarcus Anthony Hunter,Zandria F. Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States-a "Black Map" that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience-all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America.And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America's social, economic, and political landscape.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520292833

Utforska kategorier

Historisk geografi inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Marcus Anthony Hunter is Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America. Zandria F. Robinson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhodes College. She is the author of This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South.

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"A very smart new book by two culturally agile sociologists. . . . While Chocolate Cities is a story of inventive adaption, fierce survival and Black joy, it is also a history of trauma and communities under siege. This book stands as a witness to the investment of struggle, skill and resources it has taken to build and sustain chocolate cities. It is also a testament to the criminal failure of America to see and honor these essential points on the map."

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1. Everywhere below CanadaPART I THE MAP2. Dust Tracks on the Chocolate Map3. Multiplying the South4. Super Lou’s Chitlin’ CircuitPART II THE VILLAGE5. The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice6. The Two Ms. Johnsons7. Making NegrotownPART III THE SOUL8. When and Where the Spirit Moves You9. How Brenda’s Baby Got California Love10. Bounce to the Chocolate City FuturePART IV THE POWER11. The House That Jane Built12. Mary, Dionne, and Alma13. Leaving on a Jet Plane14. Seeing like a Chocolate CityAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex