constructing The Dynamo Of Dixie Hardcover

What Can Local Histories Of Interracial Conflict And Collaboration Teach Us About The Potential For Urban Equity And Social Justice In The Future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp Chronicles The Politics Of Gentrification And Culturebased Development In Chattanooga, Tennessee, By Tracing The Roots Of Racism, Spatial Segregation, And Mainstream Cosmopolitanism Back To The Earliest Encounters Between The Cherokee, African Americans, And White SettlersFor More Than Three Centuries, Chattanooga Has Been ASite For Multiracial Interaction And Community Building, Yet Today Public Leaders Have Simultaneously Restricted And Appropriated Many Contributions Of Workingclass Communities Of Color Within The City, Exacerbating Inequality And Distrust Between Neighbors And Public OfficialsKnapp Suggests That Diasporic Placemaking?defined As The Everyday Practices Through Which Uprooted People Create New Communities Of Security And Belonging?is AUseful Analytical Frame For Understanding How Multiracial Interactions Drive Planning And Urban Development In Diverse Cities Over TimeBy Weaving Together Archival, Ethnographic, And Participatory Action Research Techniques, She Reveals The Political Complexities Of ACity Characterized By Centuries Of Ordinary Resistance To Racial Segregation And Uneven Geographic Development'