Download Black in Place The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a PostChocolate City Brandi Thompson Summers 9781469654010 Books
Download As PDF : Black in Place The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a PostChocolate City Brandi Thompson Summers 9781469654010 Books
While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a "post-chocolate" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments. In doing so, she offers a theoretical framework for understanding how blackness is aestheticized and deployed to organize landscapes and raise capital. Summers focuses on the continuing significance of blackness in a place like the nation's capital, how blackness contributes to our understanding of contemporary urbanization, and how it laid an important foundation for how Black people have been thought to exist in cities. Summers also analyzes how blackness—as a representation of diversity—is marketed to sell a progressive, "cool," and authentic experience of being in and moving through an urban center.
Using a mix of participant observation, visual and media analysis, interviews, and archival research, Summers shows how blackness has become a prized and lucrative aesthetic that often excludes D.C.'s Black residents.
Download Black in Place The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a PostChocolate City Brandi Thompson Summers 9781469654010 Books
""
Product details
|
Tags : Black in Place The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City [Brandi Thompson Summers] on . While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as Chocolate City, it has undergone significant demographic,Brandi Thompson Summers,Black in Place The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City,The University of North Carolina Press,1469654016,Aesthetics, Black - Economic aspects - Washington (D.C.),Gentrification - Washington (D.C.),H Street (Washington, D.C.) - Economic aspects,Washington (D.C.) - Race relations - Economic aspects,Washington (D.C.) - Social conditions - 21st century,African American,HISTORY / African American,HISTORY / United States / State Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA),History/African American,History/American,History/United States - State Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA),Non-Fiction,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Social,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,Social Science/Ethnic Studies - African American Studies,UNIVERSITY PRESS,United States,Blackness; Washington, D.C.; urban geography; urban studies; urban sociology; aesthetics; gentrification; political economy; black geographies; racialization of space; spatialization of race; aesthetics of race; capitalism in the American city; structural inequality; urban renewal; urban and economic revitalization; historic preservation; cultural tourism; commercial gentrification; neoliberalism; cultural studies; Black representation; media; urban planning; urban design; Black subjectivity; African American studies; cultural geography; diversity; discourses of post-race; urban history
Black in Place The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a PostChocolate City Brandi Thompson Summers 9781469654010 Books Reviews :
~
