Chocolate cities
Subtitle: the Black map of American life
By: Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson
Contributors: Robinson, Zandria F., author
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780520292826; 9780520292833
Subjects: African Americans; History
Description: "When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States--a "Black Map" that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience--all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America's social, economic, and political landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."

"A Naomi Schneider book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Everywhere below Canada; title: Part I. THE MAP. Dust tracks on the chocolate map ; Multiplying the South ; Super Lou's chitlin' circuit; title: Part II. THE VILLAGE. The blacker the village, the sweeter the juice ; The two Ms. Johnsons ; Making Negrotown; title: Part III. THE SOUL. When and where the spirit moves you ; How Brenda's baby got California love ; Bounce to the chocolate city future; title: Part IV. THE POWER. The house that Jane built ; Mary, Dionne, and Alma ; Leaving on a jet plane ; Seeing like a chocolate city.