Black Towns, Black Futures (eBook)

The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West

Karla Slocum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
192 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5398-3 (ISBN)

Autor

Karla Slocum is the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy and professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also director of the Institute of African American Research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones, 1 map, 1 table
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: African American migration • black and native American relations • black geographies • Blackness • black rodeos • Black towns in Oklahoma • black towns in the west • historically significant black communities • historic black towns • life in black towns • rural black communities • rural communities in the west • successful black communities • the African diaspora • the connection between race and place • the historical significance of place • the meaning of place • the precariousness of rural economies • the prison industrial complex • the racial identity of places • the western frontier • tourism of black heritage
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-5398-2 / 1469653982
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-5398-3 / 9781469653983