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Questions 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.


About the Author: Mieka Brand Polanco is Associate Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780814763483
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 349 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0814763480
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District
  • Width: 152 mm


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