Constructing the dynamo of Dixie : race, urban planning, and cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee /
What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee by tracing the roots of racism...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation and mainstream 'cosmopolitanism' back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans and white settlers. By weaving together archival, ethnographic and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 245 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469637266 146963726X 9781469637273 1469637278 |