Chocolate Cities (eBook)

The Black Map of American Life

Marcus Anthony Hunter, Zandria F. Robinson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96617-8 (ISBN)

Infos

From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is maintained, created, and defended. But imagine—what if current maps of Black life are wrong? Chocolate Cities offers a refreshing and persuasive rendering of the United States—a “Black map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on film, fiction, music, and oral history, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson trace the Black American experience of race, place, and liberation, mapping it from Emancipation to now. As the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a provocative, broad, and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.

Inhalt

Preface

1. Everywhere below Canada

PART I THE MAP

2. Dust Tracks on the Chocolate Map
3. Multiplying the South
4. Super Lou’s Chitlin’ Circuit

PART II THE VILLAGE

5. The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice
6. The Two Ms. Johnsons
7. Making Negrotown

PART III THE SOUL

8. When and Where the Spirit Moves You
9. How Brenda’s Baby Got California Love
10. Bounce to the Chocolate City Future

PART IV THE POWER

11. The House That Jane Built
12. Mary, Dionne, and Alma
13. Leaving on a Jet Plane
14. Seeing like a Chocolate City

Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • American History • black american • black culture • Black experience • black life • black lives • Blackness • black people • Cities • City Life • Economics • Emancipation • ethnic minority • Film • Government • History • lived experiences • minority groups • minority society • music • Oral History • Politics • Race • racial minority • Racism • Towns • United States • United States history • Urban • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96617-1 / 0520966171
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96617-8 / 9780520966178