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.
This is the first modern ethnography to focus on black
working-class and middle-class life and politics. Unlike books that
enumerate the ways in which black communities have been rendered
powerless by urban political processes and by changing urban
economies, "Black Corona" demonstrates the range of ways in which
African Americans continue to organize and struggle for social
justice and community empowerment. Although it discusses the
experiences of one community, its implications resonate far more
widely.
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