| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2020) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions.
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Cultural landscapes -- United States
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- United States
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Collective memory and city planning -- United States
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Collective memory and city planning
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Cultural landscapes
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hood, Walter, 1958- editor
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Tada, Grace Mitchell, editor.
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| LC no. |
2020020085 |
| ISBN |
9780813944876 |
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0813944872 |
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