Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie
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activism in housing
activism in social justice
African American History
African American placemaking
arts economies
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capacity building
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Cherokee placemaking
community development
cosmopolitanism
cultural development
de facto segregation
deindustrialization
diaspora studies theory
displacement
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ethnography methods
gentrification
historic preservation
historiography methods
History of Chattanooga
History of Civil War
History of Economic Development
History of Southeast United States
History of Tennessee
housing politics
Jewish history
legal segregation
multiethnic history
multiethnic placemaking
Native American History
New South
participatory action research methods
public art
reconciliation politics
Theory of Urban Development
tourism planning
Trail of Tears
urban development
urban planning and public participation
urban planning and public space
urban planning diversity
Product details
- ISBN 9781469637266
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within the city, exacerbating inequality and distrust between neighbors and public officials. Knapp suggests that ""diasporic placemaking""—defined as the everyday practices through which uprooted people create new communities of security and belonging—is a useful analytical frame for understanding how multiracial interactions drive planning and urban development in diverse cities over time. 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.
Courtney Elizabeth Knapp is assistant professor of urban and regional planning at California State Polytechnic University.
