| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and 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. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Cultural landscapes -- United States.
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Cultural landscapes. |
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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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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Collective memory and city planning. |
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Race relations. |
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ARCHITECTURE / Landscape. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hood, Walter, 1958- editor.
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Tada, Grace Mitchell, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black landscapes matter Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2020] 9780813944852 (DLC) 2020020084 |
| ISBN |
9780813944876 electronic book |
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0813944872 electronic book |
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9780813944852 hardcover |
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9780813944869 paperback |
| Music No. |
EB00817655 Recorded Books |
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