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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-101469654016

ISBN-139781469654010

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038382967

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBlack in Place : the Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City

Publication Year2019

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Economic Conditions, Aesthetics, African American, Sociology / Urban, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorBrandi Thompson Summers

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2019-010826

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA spectacular offering. [ Black in Place ] provides an unparalleled understanding of race and space along the gentrifying H Street Corridor historic district in Washington, DC, and it has broad application for critically analyzing and critiquing similar transformations in other cities.-- Winterthur Portfolio, "By looking at how race takes place in the process of gentrification and how blackness is commodified in the neoliberal project, Summers raises an important question about the visibility of blackness."-- Urban Studies, A spectacular offering. [ Black in Place ] provides an unparalleled understanding of race and space along the gentrifying H Street Corridor historic district in Washington, DC, and it has broad application for critically analyzing and critiquing similar transformations in other cities." -- Winterthur Portfolio, By looking at how race takes place in the process of gentrification and how blackness is commodified in the neoliberal project, Summers raises an important question about the visibility of blackness.-- Urban Studies, "A spectacular offering. [ Black in Place ] provides an unparalleled understanding of race and space along the gentrifying H Street Corridor historic district in Washington, DC, and it has broad application for critically analyzing and critiquing similar transformations in other cities."-- Winterthur Portfolio, A spectacular offering. [ Black in Place ] provides an unparalleled understanding of race and space along the gentrifying H Street Corridor historic district in Washington, DC, and it has broad application for critically analyzing and critiquing similar transformations in other cities."-- Winterthur Portfolio

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.8009753

SynopsisWashington, D.C. 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. Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a ""post-chocolate"" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHT177.W3S84 2019