Displacing Blackness : Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax /

While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-blackness at the heart of con...

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Autor principal: Rutland, Ted (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
Race relations.
Power (Social sciences)
City planning > Social aspects.
Black people.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
HISTORY > Social History.
Power (Social sciences) > Nova Scotia > Halifax > History > 20th century.
Black people > Nova Scotia > Halifax > History > 20th century.
City planning > Social aspects > Nova Scotia > Halifax > History > 20th century.
Nova Scotia > Halifax.
Halifax (N.S.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; DISPLACING BLACKNESS; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 "Higher Living through Environment": The Reformers, the Slums, and the Emergence of Modern Urban Planning; 3 Planning the Town White: Comprehensive Planning, Scientific Racism, and the Destruction of Africville; 4 A Calibrated Rush for Progress: Urban Renewal, Anti-Blackness, and the Diverse Effects of a Totalizing Planning Project; 5 "A Place to Enjoy Oneself": Anti-Renewal Activism, Citizen Involvement, and the Limits of Urban Amenity.
  • 6 Planning by Other Means: The Black United Front and the Struggle for Self-Determination7 Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning, and the Boundaries of Economic Life; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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