Segregation and resistance in the landscapes of the Americas / Eric Avila and Thaïsa Way, editors.
"Histories of racial segregation and its impacts have been the focus of urban research for over a century, and yet the role of space, place, and land in these narratives has been largely overlooked. How have land-use policies and land access shaped the experience of place? What markings have made ev...
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Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
[2023]
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| Physical Description: | xi, 392 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
Contents:
- Preface / Thaïsa Way
- Introduction / Eric Avila and Thaïsa Way - I. Landscapes of segregation : intentions and rationales. Developing spaces of exclusion / Paige Glotzer ; Quarantine, eradication, and prescription : how health segregated the American urban landscape / Sara Jensen Carr ; Open land for whom? : racial segregation and Chicago's urban environment / Brian McCammack ; Painting race in space : racialized landscapes and the construction of peripheral territories in Colombia / Zannah Mae Matson - II. Segregation as discursive project. Following the cement supply chain : land use and racial capitalism in the Lehigh Valley / Vyta Pivo ; Where was Jim Crow? : Frank Lloyd Wright, Broadacre City, and the all-white American suburb / Dianne Harris ; A landscape of dissonance : erasing blackness in suburban Appalachia / Sharóne L. Tomer ; Making "A Waterfront for the World" : racial capitalism, indigeneity, and the marketing of Zibi in Canada's capital / Heather Dorries - III. Counternarratives and resistance. Communal gardens, defensive design, and urban apartheid in Chinatown : Merced, California, 1870-1910 / David Rouff and Verenize Arceo ; Urban markets, rural slums : segregation and resistance in California's "unincorporated" landscape / Alison B. Hirsch ; The hallowed grounds tour : revising and reimagining landscapes of race and slavery at the University of Alabama / Hilary Green ; From plantation to museum : the Whitney Plantation (Habitation Haydel) of the German Coast of Louisiana (1750-1860) / Ibrahima Seck ; "Monticello is a Black space" : the Getting Word Project and the future of African American history at Monticello / Niya Bates.