Black in place : the spatial aesthetics of race in a post-Chocolate City / Brandi Thompson Summers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Summers, Brandi Thompson, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--Washington (D.C.).

Gentrification.

Aesthetics, Black--Economic aspects--Washington (D.C.).

Aesthetics, Black.

Washington (D.C.)--Race relations--Economic aspects.

Washington (D.C.).

Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions--21st century.

H Street (Washington, D.C.)--Economic aspects.

H Street (Washington, D.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

Washington, D.C. has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a 'post-chocolate' cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments.

Contents:

Capitol reinvestment : riot, renewal, and the rise of the black ghetto

Washington's "Atlas District" and the new regime of diversity

The changing face of a black space : cultural tourism and the spatialization of nostalgia

Consuming culture : authenticity, cuisine, and H Street's quality-of-life aesthetics

The corner : spatial aesthetics and black bodies in place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

979-88-908552-5-1

979-88-908552-6-8

1-4696-5403-2

OCLC:

1118692105