Save Auburn Avenue for Our Black Heritage
Debating Development in Post-Civil Rights Atlanta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3607316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danielle Wiggins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-104 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1867 • E-ISSN: 2153-5086 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/717346 |
| OpenAlex | W4214806252 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article investigates debates concerning the redevelopment of Atlanta’s historic Black business district, “Sweet” Auburn Avenue, in the 1980s. It argues that the revitalization debates suggest two ways of conceptualizing the post–civil rights era; first, as an era of limits in which shifts in the global economy and the national political landscape narrowed the scope of what liberal Black politicians and civic activists believed what politically possible, and second, as an era of anxiety in which political and economic crises fostered nostalgia about the Black past and uncertainty about the future of Black Americans. Focusing on the divisions that emerged among Black Atlantans over the creation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site and the construction of the Auburn Avenue Research Library, the article analyzes how the political-economic constraints and anxieties of the period informed various visions of redevelopment. In doing so, it reveals how the conditions of the post–civil rights era, and the affect produced by them, structured urban Black politics in the last quarter of the twentieth century
Archaeology · Atlanta · Civil rights · Economic history · Memphis · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redevelopment · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Vision · American Political and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society
California Crucible
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
The Long Exception
Order as well as Decency”
Privatization, Devolution, and Jimmy Carter’s National Urban Policy
Selling Atlanta
Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of the Post—Civil Rights Era
Living Atlanta
The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past
Black Political Empowerment in Atlanta
The "Long Movement" as Vampire
Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order
The divided mind of Black America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |