Title: Black Corona
Description: 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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Political culture, 20th century, Race relations, African Americans, Urban ecology, History, Steden, Relations interethniques, Urban ecology (Sociology), Noirs américains, Culture politique, Politique et gouvernement, Écologie urbaine, Negers, Politieke cultuur, Culture, Ethnology, African americans, social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, new york (state), African americans, politics and government
Places: New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.), N.Y.) Corona (New York, Corona (New York, N.Y.)
Time periods: 20th century