The Creative Underclass

Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City

Tyler Denmead (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0593-3 (ISBN)

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As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence's urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence's leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as a means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kick-start the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-income communities use to resist their subjectification as members of an underclass, which, along with redistributive economic policies, can be deployed as an effective means with which to both oppose gentrification and better serve the youth who have become emblematic of urban creativity.

Tyler Denmead is University Lecturer of Arts and Creativity in Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Queens’ College.

Acknowledgment ix
Introduction 1
1. Troublemaking 30
2. The Hot Mess 45
3. Chillaxing 76
4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn't Get Creative-Class Jobs 96
5. Autoethnography of a "Gentrifying Force" 118
6. "Is This Really What White People Do" in the Creative Capital? 133
Conclusion 155
Notes 173
Biography 185
Index 197

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	10 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0593-9 / 1478005939
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0593-3 / 9781478005933
Zustand	Neuware