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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Authoring Africville: A Selected History
- 2 Placing Africville: The Making of the Slum
- 3 Knowing Africville: Telling Stories of Blackness
- 4 Razing Africville: Fusing Spatial Management and Racist Discourse
- 5 Reconciling Africville: The Politics of Dreaming and Forgetting
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index