Black in Place
Black in Place
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2019
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Brandi T. Summers
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Brandi T. Summers
虽然华盛顿特区仍然经常被称为“巧克力之城”，但在过去的十年里，它经历了重大的人口、政治和经济变化。在华盛顿特区，没有什么地方比H街走廊更能代表这种转变。在这本书中，布兰迪·汤普森·萨默斯（Brandi Thompson Summers）通过绘制H街的经济和种族发展图表，记录了华盛顿特区向“后巧克力”国际大都市的转变。在此过程中，她提供了一个理论框架来理解黑人是如何被审美化的，并被用于组织景观和筹集资金。萨默斯关注黑人在美国首都这样的地方的持续意义，黑人如何有助于我们对当代城市化的理解，以及它如何为黑人如何被认为存在于城市中奠定了重要基础。萨默斯还分析了黑人——作为多样性的代表——是如何被推销给一种进步的、“酷”的、真实的在城市中心生活和穿行的体验的。萨默斯将参与观察、视觉和媒体分析、访谈和档案研究相结合，展示了黑人如何成为一种珍贵而有利可图的审美，而这种审美往往将华盛顿特区的黑人居民排除在外。
While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as “Chocolate City,” it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.’s shift to a “post-chocolate” cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street’s economic and racial developments. In doing so, she offers a theoretical framework for understanding how blackness is aestheticized and deployed to organize landscapes and raise capital. Summers focuses on the continuing significance of blackness in a place like the nation’s capital, how blackness contributes to our understanding of contemporary urbanization, and how it laid an important foundation for how Black people have been thought to exist in cities. Summers also analyzes how blackness—as a representation of diversity—is marketed to sell a progressive, “cool,” and authentic experience of being in and moving through an urban center.Using a mix of participant observation, visual and media analysis, interviews, and archival research, Summers shows how blackness has become a prized and lucrative aesthetic that often excludes D.C.’s Black residents.