- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 Everywhere below Canada -
Part I The Map -
2 Dust Tracks on the Chocolate Map -
3 Multiplying the South -
4 Super Lou’s Chitlin’ Circuit -
Part II The Village -
5 The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice -
6 The Two Ms. Johnsons -
7 Making Negrotown -
Part III The Soul -
8 When and Where the Spirit Moves You -
9 How Brenda’s Baby Got California Love -
10 Bounce to the Chocolate City Future -
Part IV The Power -
11 The House That Jane Built -
12 Mary, Dionne, and Alma -
13 Leaving on a Jet Plane -
14 Seeing like a Chocolate City - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Making Negrotown
Making Negrotown
- Chapter:
- (p.77) 7 Making Negrotown
- Source:
- Chocolate Cities
- Author(s):
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Zandria F. Robinson
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter uses two key examples to complete the discussion of the village feature of chocolate cities. First, the life and time of great migrant Arthur Lee Robinson demonstrates the importance of place, rivers, and familial black enclaves throughout the United States. Second, the sketch "Negro Town" from the Key & Peele show illustrates the role of black imagination and density and communal space matter in black citymaking and placemaking.
Keywords: Arthur Lee Robinson, Key & Peele, Negro Town, Tallahatchie River, Memphis, Atlanta, chocolate cities, The Black Map
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 Everywhere below Canada -
Part I The Map -
2 Dust Tracks on the Chocolate Map -
3 Multiplying the South -
4 Super Lou’s Chitlin’ Circuit -
Part II The Village -
5 The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice -
6 The Two Ms. Johnsons -
7 Making Negrotown -
Part III The Soul -
8 When and Where the Spirit Moves You -
9 How Brenda’s Baby Got California Love -
10 Bounce to the Chocolate City Future -
Part IV The Power -
11 The House That Jane Built -
12 Mary, Dionne, and Alma -
13 Leaving on a Jet Plane -
14 Seeing like a Chocolate City - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index