Razing Africville / / Jennifer Nelson.
In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and ‘slum clearance.’ The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t 1 Authoring Africville: A Selected History -- |t 2 Placing Africville: The Making of the Slum -- |t 3 Knowing Africville: Telling Stories of Blackness -- |t 4 Razing Africville: Fusing Spatial Management and Racist Discourse -- |t 5 Reconciling Africville: The Politics of Dreaming and Forgetting -- |t Afterword -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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520 | |a In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and ‘slum clearance.’ The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect and the refusal of essential services. In the 1980s, the city created a park on Africville’s former site, which has been a place of protest and commemoration for black citizens since its opening. As yet, however, the city has not issued a formal apology to Africville residents and has paid no further compensation.Razing Africville examines this history as the prolonged eviction of a community from its own space. By examining a variety of sources – urban planning texts, city council documents, news media, and academic accounts – Jennifer J. Nelson illustrates how Africville went from a slum to a problem to be solved and, more recently, to a public space in which past violence is rendered invisible. Reading historical texts as a critical map of decision-making, she argues that the ongoing measures taken to regulate black bodies and spaces amount to a ‘geography of racism.’ Through a geographic lens, therefore, she manages to analyse ways in which race requires space and how the control of space is a necessary component of delineating and controlling people.A much needed re-examination of an important historical example, Razing Africville applies contemporary spatial theory to the situation in Africville and offers critical observations about the function of racism. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Blacks |x Race identity |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax. | |
650 | 0 | |a Blacks |x Relocation |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Blacks |x Relocation |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Eviction |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Racism |x Government policy |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Racism |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Urban renewal |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Whites |x Race identity |z Nova Scotia |z Halifax. | |
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