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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.
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Politics and government, Political culture, 20th century, Race relations, African Americans, Urban ecology, History, Steden, Relations interethniques, Urban ecology (Sociology), Noirs américains, Culture politique, Politique et gouvernement, Écologie urbaine, Negers, Politieke cultuur, Culture, Ethnology, African americans, social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, new york (state), African americans, politics and governmentTimes
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Black Corona
May 21, 1999, Princeton University Press
Paperback
in English
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0691029369 9780691029368
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Black Corona: race and the politics of place in an urban community
1998, Princeton University Press
in English
0691017395 9780691017396
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index.
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