How the streets were made : housing segregation and Black life in America /

In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of 'the streets' not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Yelena (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • How the streets were made
  • The secret of selling the Negro: the creation of black urban consumerism
  • From the street to the streets: black literary production and urban space
  • Music born of the streets: hip hop's articulations of urban life and identity
  • A hood genre: visualizing the streets in TV and film.