Dark Concrete (eBook)

Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis

Kimberley Johnson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
390 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8184-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Dark Concrete is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. Although the national and international dimensions of the Black Power movement are often focused on, Kimberley Johnson looks at the movement at the local level, highlighting Newark and East Orange, New Jersey, and Oakland and East Palo Alto, California, and three policy areas: housing, education, and policing. She examines how Black Power Urbanism had its own local meanings as it was defined by local activists, neighborhood residents, parents, tenants, and others who sought to repair cities and particularly black neighborhoods that were shattered due to urban renewal and highway construction, as well as ongoing political and economic disinvestment. Dark Concrete depicts how local conditions influenced the emergence of the Black Power movement and, in turn, the ways in which these local movements reshaped urban politics, institutions, and place.

Autor

Kimberley Johnson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is a political scientist whose work focuses on contemporary American politics, historical political development, and urban studies. She is the author of Reforming Jim Crow and Governing the American State.

Inhalt

1. Black Cities and Urban Political Development
2. Black Power urbanism: Imaginings, Insurgencies and Instantiations
3. Newark: Self Government is Possible... Let's Do it Together!
4. East Orange: Black Power Urbanism in a Model Inter-racial Suburb
5. Oakland: Organizing for Survival
6. East Palo Alto: Building Nairobi, USA
Conclusion: "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"? The End of Black Power Urbanism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 45 b&w halftones, 3 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Black power cities, local politics and black panthers, community control of education, black urban politics
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-8184-7 / 1501781847
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-8184-1 / 9781501781841