Black landscapes matter / edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada.

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TextPublisher number: EB00817655 | Recorded BooksPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : color illustrations, color mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813944876
0813944872

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black landscapes matterDDC classification:

305.896/073 23

LOC classification:

E185.86 .B52559 2020

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Contents:

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Calls to Action -- AS AMERICAN AS BASEBALL (AND CENTRAL PARK) -- INSISTING ON ANSWERS -- BLACK LANDSCAPES MATTER . . . THEN AND NOW, HERE AND EVERYWHERE -- PART II: Practicing Culture -- THE EVERYDAY AND MUNDANE -- LIFEWAYS -- COMMEMORATION -- PART III: Notes from the Field -- ENABLING CONNECTIONS TO EMPOWER PLACE: The Carolinas -- THE PARADOXICAL BLACK LANDSCAPE: Trade and Tryon Streets, Charlotte, North Carolina -- A TALE OF THE LANDSCAPE: Detroit, Michigan -- SITE OF THE UNSEEN: The Racial Gaming of American Landscapes

RITUAL AND DISPLACEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS: The Photographs of Lewis Watts -- THE BEERLINE TRAIL: Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- AFTERWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Summary: "Black Landscapes Matter probes the very timely issue of how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. The book provides examples of how African American landscapes are rejected and erased in a variety of places across the US--from Charlotte, NC, to New Orleans, LA, Detroit, MI, and Milwaukee, WI--along with calls to action"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Black Landscapes Matter probes the very timely issue of how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. The book provides examples of how African American landscapes are rejected and erased in a variety of places across the US--from Charlotte, NC, to New Orleans, LA, Detroit, MI, and Milwaukee, WI--along with calls to action"-- Provided by publisher.

RITUAL AND DISPLACEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS: The Photographs of Lewis Watts -- THE BEERLINE TRAIL: Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- AFTERWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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