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Constructing the dynamo of Dixie : race, urban planning, and cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee
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"What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics ...
"What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream 'cosmopolitanism' back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. By weaving together archival, ethnographic, and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development"--
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- Creator
- Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
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- English
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- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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- xii, 245 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781469637266, 9781469637273, 9781469637280, 1469637294, 146963726X, 9798890852816, 1469637278, 1469637286, 9781469637297
- OCLC
- on1029892288, on1003641620
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Diasporic placemaking in the renaissance city of the South -- Settling Chattanooga: race, property, and Cherokee dispossession -- Rooting a black diaspora in downtown Chattanooga: 1540-1890 -- Cosmopolitanism as concealment: the dynamo of Dixie during Jim Crow, 1890-1968 -- Defying racist stereotypes: the Big Nine and Lincoln Park -- Singing a Big Nine blues revolution -- Chattanooga homecoming: citizen-driven planning along the Tennessee riverfront -- Public space, cultural development, and reconciliation politics in the renaissance city -- From rabble rousing to sparcing community transformation: the evolution of Chattanooga organized for action -- The politics of black self-determination and neighborhood preservation in Lincoln Park