Black landscapes matter / edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada.
Material type: TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: vi, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmISBN:- 0813944856
- 9780813944852
- 9780813944869
- 0813944864
- E185.86 .B52559 2020
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB468.5.A2 H66 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800182172 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Walter Hood -- Calls to action. As American as baseball (and Central Park) / Richard L. Hindle -- Insisting on answers / Louise A. Mozingo -- Black landscapes matter ... then and now, here and everywhere / Anna Livia Brand -- Practicing culture. The everyday and mundane -- Lifeways -- Commenmoration -- Notes from the field. Enabling connections to empower place : the Carolinas / Kofi Boone -- The paradoxical black landscape : Trade and Tryon Streets, Charlotte, North Carolina / Walter Hood -- A tale of the landscape : Detroit, Michigan / Maurice Cox -- Site of the unseen : the racial gaming of American landscapes / Austin Allen -- Ritual and displacement in New Orleans : the photographs of Lewis Watts / Lewis Watts with Walter Hood -- The Beerline Trail : Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Sara Daleiden.
"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"--