The Street -

The Street

A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality

Naa Oyo A. Kwate (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0450-0 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
What do vacant lots signify? How should we interpret architectural relics overgrown with weeds? What social processes do street art memorials embody? The Street drills down into the intimate street photography of Camilo Vergara to outline a visual dictionary for urban inequality.
Vacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. 

 

Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden’s residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.

NAA OYO A. KWATE is an associate professor of Africana studies and human ecology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An interdisciplinary social scientist with wide ranging interests in racial inequality and African American urban life, her books include Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now. She resides in Philadelphia.   DARNELL MOORE is the Director of Inclusion Strategy for Content & Marketing at Netflix. He is the co-managing editor at The Feminist Wire and the writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia University. Named one of The Root 100’s most influential African Americans, Moore has been published in various media outlets including MSNBC, Huffington Post, EBONY, and others. He is the author of No Ashes in the Fire. He resides in Los Angeles. CAMILO JOSÉ VERGARA is one of the nation’s foremost urban documentarians, Vergara is a recipient of the 2012 National Humanities Medal and was named a MacArthur fellow in 2002. Since 1977, he has photographed some of the country’s most impoverished neighborhoods, repeatedly returning to locations in New York, Newark, Camden, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He is also the author of numerous books, the most recent title being Detroit is No Dry Bones. He resides in New York City.

Foreword 

Introduction

Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit

No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America

No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization 

No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care 

Part II Symbols and Sentiments

No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape 

No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering 

No. 6 Dissonance 

No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees 

Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space

No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story

No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality

No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence

No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food 

Part IV Safety and Security

No. 12 Persistence of Black/White Inequities in Infant Mortality 

No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas 

No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools 

No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement 

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Janice Johnson Dias, Craig B Futterman
Illustrationen Camilo José Vergara
Vorwort Darnell L Moore
Zusatzinfo 17 color images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 203 mm
Gewicht 463 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Fotografieren / Filmen
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 1-9788-0450-4 / 1978804504
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-0450-0 / 9781978804500
Zustand Neuware
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