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ID075861
Title ProperRuralizing the city
Other Title Informationthe great migrationand environmental rehabilitation in baltimore, maryland
LanguageENG
AuthorZeiderman, Austin
Publication2006.
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article examines the discursive and material presence of the "rural" in the "urban," relating it to the historical and contemporary production of African American culture and identity. By using the case of the Great Migration, it discusses how African Americans negotiated and shaped their urban surroundings and formed individual and collective identities by drawing on their rural, southern histories. It then suggests the relevance of these broad historical processes to contemporary analyses and interventions in the urban environment of Baltimore, Maryland. This article challenges assumptions that obscure the agency of urban residents in the formation of identity and the establishment of community. It demonstrates ways in which the historical movement from rural South to urban North was accompanied by a range of cultural resources that have been adapted, discarded, or reconstructed.
`In' analytical NoteIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 13, No.2; Apr-Jun 2006: p209 - 235
Journal SourceIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 13, No.2; Apr-Jun 2006: p209 - 235
Key WordsGreat Migration ;  Baltimore ;  African Americans ;  Rural-Urban ;  Environment