LEADER 04079nam 22006375 450 001 9910827887303321 005 20230803202431.0 010 $a0-8147-2474-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814724743 035 $a(CKB)3710000000111408 035 $a(EBL)1688584 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001224579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11707167 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11262066 035 $a(PQKB)11233641 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1688584 035 $a(OCoLC)879857706 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34285 035 $a(DE-B1597)548612 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814724743 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000111408 100 $a20200723h20142014 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHistorically Black $eImagining Community in a Black Historic District /$fMieka Brand Polanco 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-6348-0 311 0 $a0-8147-6288-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Gating Union --$t3. Thick Histories --$t4. ?Not to Scale? --$tConclusion. Unfolding Communities: Union Road as a ?Uniter of People?? --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aQuestions the way we understand the idea of community through an investigation of the term "historically black "In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes?and how the term ?community? is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials from Union, Virginia, Historically Black offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category ?Ethnic Heritage?Black.?Since Union has been home to a racially mixed population since at least the late 19th century, calling it ?historically black? poses some curious existential questions to the black residents who currently live there. Union?s identity as a ?historically black community? encourages a perception of the town as a monochromatic and monohistoric landscape, effectively erasing both old-timer white residents and newcomer black residents while allowing newer white residents to take on a proud role as preservers of history.Gestures to ?community? gloss an oversimplified perspective of race, history and space that conceals much of the richness (and contention) of lived reality in Union, as well as in the larger United States. They allow Americans to avoid important conversations about the complex and unfolding nature by which groups of people and social/physical landscapes are conceptualized as a single unified whole. This multi-layered, multi-textured ethnography explores a key concept, inviting public conversation about the dynamic ways in which race, space, and history inform our experiences and understanding of community. 606 $aIdentity politics$zUnited States 606 $aHistoric districts$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aCommunities$zUnited States 615 0$aIdentity politics 615 0$aHistoric districts 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aCommunities 676 $a305.800973 686 $aSOC002010$aSOC026000$aSOC031000$2bisacsh 700 $aPolanco$b Mieka Brand$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01610079 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827887303321 996 $aHistorically Black$93937652 997 $aUNINA