Historically Black

Name: Historically Black
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780814763483
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Imagining Community in a Black Historic District

Autor: Mieka Brand Polanco

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: h...

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Autor

Mieka Brand Polanco

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2014

Pagini

208

EAN

9780814763483

ISBN

0814763480

Enbook ID

04932149

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

304

Dimensiuni

146 x 229 x 14

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In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes--and how the term "community" is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials from Union, Virginia, Historically Black offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category "Ethnic Heritage--Black."Since Union has been home to a racially mixed population since at least the late 19th century, calling it "historically black" poses some curious existential questions to the black residents who currently live there. Union's identity as a "historically black community" encourages a perception of the town as a monochromatic and monohistoric landscape, effectively erasing both old-timer white residents and newcomer black residents while allowing newer white residents to take on a proud role as preservers of historyGestures to "community" gloss an oversimplified perspective of race, history and space that conceals much of the richness (and contention) of lived reality in Union, as well as in the larger United States. They allow Americans to avoid important conversations about the complex and unfolding nature by which groups of people and social/physical landscapes are conceptualized as a single unified whole. This multi-layered, multi-textured ethnography explores a key concept, inviting public conversation about the dynamic ways in which race, space, and history inform our experiences and understanding of community.

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