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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 U.S.-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
alongside 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 they create and defend. Black
maps are consequentially different from our current geographical
understanding of race and place in America. And as the U.S. 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.
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.
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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