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The creative underclass : youth, race, and the gentrifying city / Tyler Denmead.
LIBRA NX180.Y68 D466 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denmead, Tyler, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Urban Arts (Providence, R.I.).
- Arts and youth--Rhode Island--Providence.
- Arts and youth.
- African American youth--Education (Secondary)--Rhode Island--Providence.
- African American youth.
- Arts--Rhode Island--Providence.
- Arts.
- Gentrification--Rhode Island--Providence.
- Gentrification.
- Education, Secondary.
- Rhode Island--Providence.
- Rhode Island.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence's urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence's leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kickstart the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-income communities use to resist their subjectification as members of an underclass which, along with redistributive economic policies can be deployed as an effective means with which to both to oppose gentrification and better serve the youth who have become emblematic of urban creativity."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Troublemaking
- The hot mess
- Chillaxing
- Why the creative underclass doesn't get creative-class jobs
- Autoethnography of a "gentrifying force"
- Is this really what white people do in the creative capital?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Denmead, Tyler, 1976- Creative underclass.
- ISBN:
- 9781478006596
- 1478006595
- 9781478005933
- 1478005939
- OCLC:
- 1083466366
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