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Raise Money, Raise Hell, or Leave: Contesting DIY Urbanism in the Black Outer City

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This dissertation considers the ways do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism is promoted, taken up, and responded to by the black middle class. Using thirty-eight interviews and one year of ethnographic observation in the Northwest Detroit neighborhood of Bagley, I document the following findings. First, many DIY projects have come from government and...

Keyword:

black middle class, Detroit, austerity, and urban neoliberalism

Subject:

African-American Studies

Creator:

Jackson Christopher Bartlett

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/28/2018

Date Modified:

01/29/2019

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation