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Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life

Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria Robinson

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9780520292826

Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2018

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520292826.001.0001

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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
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520292826.003.0007

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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