Toward Camden / Mercy Romero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romero, Mercy, 1974- author.

Series:

Black outdoors

Black outdoors : innovation in the poetics of study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camden (N.J.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Camden (N.J.).

Camden (N.J.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Camden (N.J.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

New Jersey--Camden.

Community development--New Jersey--Camden.

Community development.

Hispanic Americans--New Jersey--Camden--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans.

African Americans--New Jersey--Camden--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

ix, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses-her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Toward Camden

Empty lots

Demolition futures

Halfway houses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Copy: Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

Other Format:

Online version: Romero, Mercy, 1974- Toward Camden.

ISBN:

9781478013785

1478013788

9781478014706

1478014709

OCLC:

1223066303