Race, Culture, and the City

Race, Culture, and the CityProposes a pedagogy of black urban struggle and solidarity. The author argues that "race" as a social construction is one of the most powerful categories for constructing urban mythologies about blacks, and that this is significant in a dominant white supremacist culture that equates blackness and black people with both danger and the exotic. The book examines how these myths are realized in the material landscapes of the city, in its racialization of

Drawing inspiration from the African American storytelling traditions she has spent decades studying and teaching

Weaving poetry throughout

Situates the remake as one of the primary responses to Bollywood's globalization and corporatization

cultural sensitivity

Production agriculture requires efficient methods for complete coverage of agricultural landscapes to complete the critical production steps of preparing the land and planting

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Going beyond the warring rhetorics of exploitation and empowerment

Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations

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Bringing Jacques Derrida's works into conversation with the philosophies of Martin Heidegger