Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie (eBook)

Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Courtney Elizabeth Knapp (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
262 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469637280 (ISBN)

Infos

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream “cosmopolitanism” back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within the city, exacerbating inequality and distrust between neighbors and public officials. Knapp suggests that “diasporic placemaking”—defined as the everyday practices through which uprooted people create new communities of security and belonging—is a useful analytical frame for understanding how multiracial interactions drive planning and urban development in diverse cities over time. By weaving together archival, ethnographic, and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development.

Autor

Courtney Elizabeth Knapp is assistant professor of urban and regional planning at California State Polytechnic University.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 18 figs., 2 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: activism in housing • activism in social justice • African American History • African American placemaking • arts economies • capacity building • Cherokee placemaking • community development • Cosmopolitanism • Cultural Development • de facto segregation • deindustrialization • diaspora studies theory • Displacement • ethnography methods • Gentrification • historic preservation • historiography methods • History of Chattanooga • history of civil war • History of Economic Development • History of Southeast United States • History of Tennessee • Housing Politics • Jewish History • legal segregation • multiethnic history • multiethnic placemaking • Native American History • New South • participatory action research • participatory action research methods • Public Art • reconciliation politics • Theory of Urban Development • tourism planning • Trail of Tears • Urban Development • urban planning and public participation • urban planning and public space • urban planning diversity
• ISBN-13: 9781469637280 / 9781469637280