{"title":"From The Street to the Streets","authors":"Yelena Bailey","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 examines how Black authors have depicted the streets in their writing and challenged anti-Black narratives associated with urban space. This chapter provides an in-depth analysis Ann Petry’s The Street, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me. Despite being spread across decades, these authors’ share narrative through lines about the streets.","PeriodicalId":170433,"journal":{"name":"How the Streets Were Made","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116263715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music Born of the Streets","authors":"Yelena Bailey","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 examines the history of hip hop as a genre that was literally created in the streets (at block parties). Additionally, this chapter explores the role of hip hop as a Black art form that provides a complex picture of Black space. As a part of this discussion, this chapter analyzes The Fugees’s The Score, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, and Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City as examples of how hip hop operates as an art form that humanizes Black youth in counter cultural ways.","PeriodicalId":170433,"journal":{"name":"How the Streets Were Made","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129353526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the Streets Were Made","authors":"Yelena Bailey","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 examines the history of U.S. housing policy and geographic segregation. Beyond a history of housing segregation, Chapter 1 examines how policy contributed to the conceptualization of Black space as morally deficient. Finally, this chapter establishes a connection between the implementation of U.S. housing policy and the way Black life is depicted in media, marketing, and popular culture.","PeriodicalId":170433,"journal":{"name":"How the Streets Were Made","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124903447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Hood Genre","authors":"Yelena Bailey","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 examines the way Black urban space exists in the popular imaginary. This chapter offers a brief history of Black space on screen and then provides and in-depth analysis of how Black space is depicted in the hood genre films of the 1990s, Moonlight, The Wire, and The Chi. The film analysis in this chapter focuses on how these depictions illustrate competing narratives of the streets produced by white and Black imaginaries.","PeriodicalId":170433,"journal":{"name":"How the Streets Were Made","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127223201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Yelena Bailey","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660592.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusion grounds a larger discussion of the streets within recent events, such as the 2020 summer uprisings in response to George Floyd’s murder. The conclusion frames these current events as a direct product of the history of housing segregation and the way the streets define Black life. Starting with the Kerner Commission and ending with discussion of reparations, the conclusion explores the possibility of redress.","PeriodicalId":170433,"journal":{"name":"How the Streets Were Made","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115214540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}