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Record Nr.

UNISA996599564603316

Autore

Denmead Tyler

Titolo

The Creative Underclass : : Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City / / Tyler Denmead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : Duke University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4780-9204-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Soggetti

Social Science / Ethnic Studies

Social Science / Sociology / Urban

Art / Business Aspects

Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence's urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence's leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as a means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kick-start the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-income communities use to resist their subjectification as members of an underclass, which, along with redistributive economic policies, can be deployed as an effective means with which to both oppose gentrification and better serve the youth who have become emblematic of urban creativity.