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African Americans
Apartment
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Black people
Borough president
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Citizens (Spanish political party)
City manager
Community Board
Consideration
Criticism
Ditmars Boulevard
Economic restructuring
Employment
Empowerment
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental impact statement
Environmental justice
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Ethnic group
Exclusion
Flushing Bay
Funding
Good government
Grand Central Parkway
Household
Identity (social science)
Identity politics
Ideology
Immigration reform
Income
Institution
LaGuardia Airport
Law enforcement
LeFrak City
Middle class
My Father
Narrative
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Urban League
NIMBY
Our Community
Police
Political culture
Political economy
Politician
Politics
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Poverty
Private sector
Public sphere
Racial segregation
Racism
Slum
Social class
Social inequality
Social movement
Social relation
Society
The New York Times
The Other Hand
Town hall meeting
Underclass
Unemployment
Upper class
Urban decay
Urban renewal
Voluntary association
Voter registration
War on Poverty
Welfare
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029368
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class and middle-class African Americans construct and negotiate complex and deeply historical political identities and institutions through struggles over the built environment and neighborhood quality of life. With its emphasis on the lived experiences of African Americans, Black Corona provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the study of the dynamic interplay of race, class, and space in contemporary urban communities. It questions the accuracy of the widely used trope of the dysfunctional "black ghetto," which, the author asserts, has often been deployed to depoliticize issues of racial and economic inequality in the United States.
By contrast, Gregory argues that the urban experience of African Americans is more diverse than is generally acknowledged and that it is only by attending to the history and politics of black identity and community life that we can come to appreciate this complexity. This is the first modern ethnography to focus on black working-class and middle-class life and politics. Unlike books that enumerate the ways in which black communities have been rendered powerless by urban political processes and by changing urban economies, Black Corona demonstrates the range of ways in which African Americans continue to organize and struggle for social justice and community empowerment. Although it discusses the experiences of one community, its implications resonate far more widely.
Steven Gregory is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at New York University.
