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How the streets were made : housing segregation and Black life in America / Yelena Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Yelena, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Segregation.
- African Americans.
- Segregation--United States--History.
- Segregation.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- African Americans--Economic conditions--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This text 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908593-6-5
- 979-88-908593-7-2
- 1-4696-6058-X
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