Chocolate Cities: The Black Map Of American Life
by Marcus Anthony Hunter /
2018 / English / EPUB
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From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black
people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where
Black culture is maintained, created, and defended. But
imagine—what if current maps of Black life are
wrong?
From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black
people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where
Black culture is maintained, created, and defended. But
imagine—what if current maps of Black life are
wrong?Chocolate Cities
Chocolate Cities offers a refreshing and
persuasive rendering of the United States—a “Black map” that more
accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black
life in America. Drawing on film, fiction, music, and oral
history, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson trace the
Black American experience of race, place, and liberation, mapping
it from Emancipation to now. As the United States moves
toward a majority minority society,
offers a refreshing and
persuasive rendering of the United States—a “Black map” that more
accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black
life in America. Drawing on film, fiction, music, and oral
history, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson trace the
Black American experience of race, place, and liberation, mapping
it from Emancipation to now. As the United States moves
toward a majority minority society,Chocolate
Cities
Chocolate
Cities provides a provocative, broad, and necessary
assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change
America’s social, economic, and political landscape.
provides a provocative, broad, and necessary
assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change
America’s social, economic, and political landscape.