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This Ain't Chicago

Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-soul South

By: Zandria F. Robinson

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This Ain't Chicago

Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-soul South

By: Zandria F. Robinson

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences. Robinson grounds her work in Memphis--the first big city heading north out of the Mississippi Delta. Although Memphis sheds light on much about the South, Robinson does not suggest that the region is monolithic. Instead, she attends to multiple Souths, noting the distinctions between southern places. Memphis, neither Old South nor New South, sits at the intersections of rural and urban, soul and post-soul, and civil rights and post-civil rights, representing an ongoing conversation with the varied incarnations of the South, past and present.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN 10

1469614243

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9781469614243

Chocolate Cities

The Black Map of American Life

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter,Zandria Robinson

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Chocolate Cities

The Black Map of American Life

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter,Zandria Robinson

When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States—a “Black Map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience—all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.

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Univ of California Press

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0520292820

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9780520292826

This Ain't Chicago

Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-soul South

By: Zandria F. Robinson

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This Ain't Chicago

Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-soul South

By: Zandria F. Robinson

This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South

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UNC Press Books

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1469614227

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9781469614229

Chocolate Cities

The Black Map of American Life

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter,Zandria Robinson

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The Black Map of American Life

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