Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie : Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee Cover Image

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Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie : Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee / Courtney Elizabeth Knapp.

Summary:

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 1469637286
ISBN: 1469637294
ISBN: 9781469637280
ISBN: 9781469637297
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.18 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Diasporic placemaking in the renaissance city of the South -- Settling Chattanooga: race, property, and Cherokee dispossession -- Rooting a black diaspora in downtown Chattanooga: 1540-1890 -- Cosmopolitanism as concealment: the dynamo of Dixie during Jim Crow, 1890-1968 -- Defying racist stereotypes: the Big Nine and Lincoln Park -- Singing a Big Nine blues revolution -- Chattanooga homecoming: citizen-driven planning along the Tennessee riverfront -- Public space, cultural development, and reconciliation politics in the renaissance city -- From rabble rousing to sparcing community transformation: the evolution of Chattanooga organized for action -- The politics of black self-determination and neighborhood preservation in Lincoln Park.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.