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"The Search for New Forms": Black Power and the Making of the Postmodern City.
- Source :
- Journal of American History; Sep2016, Vol. 103 Issue 2, p375-399, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Cities were fundamental to the rise of the black power movement in the late 1960s, but, as Brian D. Goldstein uncovers, the built environment also served as a crucial medium through which black power proponents imagined the future that would follow from racial self-determination. As the case of Harlem shows, activist architects and planners and their community partners crafted an urban vision that valued existing African American residents and preserved their vibrant neighborhoods. In doing so, they not only offered a rebuke to modernist city building, with its emphasis on clearance and redevelopment, but they also played a thus-far-overlooked role in crafting a new, postmodern urbanism in its place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00218723
- Volume :
- 103
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of American History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 117788596
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw181