This Ain't Chicago
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and identity
Atlanta
Author_Zandria F. Robinson
black southern culture
blackAfrican American South
blues and hip-hop
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contemporary African American identity
contemporary community study
contemporary southern culture
country cosmopolitanism
Dirty South
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Erykah Badu
identity performance
intersectionality
Memphis
modern urban South
New South
OutKast
post-civil rights South
post-soul South
race
racial authenticity
region
regionalism
return South migration
sociological case study
southern ethnography
southern hip-hop
third coast
Tyler Perry
urban and rural cultures in the South
urban ethnographies in the South
urban ethnography
urban South
Product details
- ISBN 9781469614229
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2014
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution ""I hope you know this ain't Chicago."" In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences.
Robinson grounds her work in Memphis--the first big city heading north out of the Mississippi Delta. Although Memphis sheds light on much about the South, Robinson does not suggest that the region is monolithic. Instead, she attends to multiple Souths, noting the distinctions between southern places. Memphis, neither Old South nor New South, sits at the intersections of rural and urban, soul and post-soul, and civil rights and post-civil rights, representing an ongoing conversation with the varied incarnations of the South, past and present.
Robinson grounds her work in Memphis--the first big city heading north out of the Mississippi Delta. Although Memphis sheds light on much about the South, Robinson does not suggest that the region is monolithic. Instead, she attends to multiple Souths, noting the distinctions between southern places. Memphis, neither Old South nor New South, sits at the intersections of rural and urban, soul and post-soul, and civil rights and post-civil rights, representing an ongoing conversation with the varied incarnations of the South, past and present.
Zandria F. Robinson is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Memphis, USA. She is coeditor of Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age.
