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Black Corona : race and the politics of place in an urban community
- Title
- Black Corona : race and the politics of place in an urban community / Steven Gregory.
- Author
- Gregory, Steven, 1954-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | F128.68.C65 G74 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 282 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class and middle-class African Americans construct and negotiate complex and deeply historical political identities and institutions through struggles over the built environment and neighborhood quality of life. With its emphasis on the lived experiences of African Americans, Black Corona provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the study of the dynamic interplay of race, class, and space in contemporary urban communities. It questions the accuracy of the widely used trope of the dysfunctional "black ghetto," which, the author asserts, has often been deployed to depoliticize issues of racial and economic inequality in the United States. By contrast, Gregory argues that the urban experience of African Americans is more diverse than is generally acknowledged and that it is only by attending to the history and politics of black identity and community life that we can come to appreciate this complexity."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- Uniform Title
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government
- Urban ecology (Sociology) > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- Political culture > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Politics and government
- Political culture
- Race relations
- Urban ecology (Sociology)
- Politieke cultuur
- Steden
- Zwarten
- Noirs américains > États-Unis > New York (N.Y.) > Politique et gouvernement
- Écologie urbaine > États-Unis > New York (N.Y.) > 20e siècle
- Culture politique > États-Unis > New York (N.Y.)
- Corona (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations
- New York (N.Y.) > Race relations
- New York (State) > New York
- New York (State) > New York > Corona
- Corona (New York, N.Y.) > Relations interethniques
- New York (N.Y.) > Relations interethniques
- New York (N.Y.) > Politique et gouvernement > 1951- ..
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-277) and index.
- Contents
- Making Community -- The Movement -- The State and the War on Politics -- Race and the Politics of Place -- A Piece of the Rock -- Up Against the Authority -- The Politics of Hearing and Telling.
- ISBN
- 0691017395
- 9780691017396
- 0691029369
- 9780691029368
- LCCN
- 97039537
- OCLC
- ocm37545600
- 37545600
- SCSB-363545
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library