Constructing African American Urban Space in Atlanta, Georgia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4489252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua F J Inwood (0000-0002-8291-5970, Assistant professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966; []., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-163 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2011.00084.x |
| OpenAlex | W2003756751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
Recognizing the connections between the construction of urban space and racial identity, this article explores an urban redevelopment scheme launched in 2004 by Big Bethel ame Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Known as the "Renaissance Walk," Big Bethel's project is a $45 million dollar redevelopment plan to turn an adjacent city block into a mixed‐use development. By looking at the racialization of place from the perspective of those who live, work, and organize along Auburn Avenue, one of the most historically significant African American business corridors in the United States, I contend that Big Bethel's redevelopment project is emblematic of contemporary black counterpublic spaces and links the redevelopment project undertaken by Big Bethel with African American identity positions
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Atlanta · Geography · Identity (music · Metropolitan area · Political science · Quilt · Redevelopment · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Taking a longer historical view of America’s renaming moment
Revisiting Auburn Avenue
Placing 'the South' in the Geopolitical Thought of Malcolm X
Performance as place preservation
The legacies of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, fifty years on
Your home-away from home
Placing Racial Triangulation, Triangulating Place and Race
Food, faith, and the everyday struggle for black urban community
"No "Blank Canvas
Black visions
Parting the Waters
The Space That Race Makes
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
Harlemworld
Racial Uplift? Intra‐Racial Class Conflict and the Economic Revitalization of Harlem and Bronzeville
Rethinking the Black Public Sphere
The Black Public Sphere
Race, Class, and Political Activism
Atlanta
Racialization and “Southern” Identities of Resistance
Identity, contingency and the urban geography of 'race
The Spirit of Neoliberalism
A Black Counterpublic
Race, Identity and Political Activism
Contested memory in the birthplace of a king
Negotiating Blackness, for Richer or for Poorer
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |