This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (New Directions in Southern Studies) - Couverture souple

Robinson, Zandria F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1469614227 ISBN 13 : 9781469614229

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Synopsis

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences.

Robinson grounds her work in Memphis -- the first big city heading north out of the Mississippi Delta. Although Memphis sheds light on much about the South, Robinson does not suggest that the region is monolithic. Instead, she attends to multiple Souths, noting the distinctions between southern places. Memphis, neither Old South nor New South, sits at the intersections of rural and urban, soul and post-soul, and civil rights and post-civil rights, representing an ongoing conversation with the varied incarnations of the South, past and present.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Zandria F. Robinson is assistant professor of sociology at Rhodes College. She is coeditor of Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469614227
• ISBN 13: 9781469614229
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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