Aimee Meredith Cox

Shapeshifters

Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this ethnography of the Fresh Start homeless shelter in Detroit, Aimee Meredith Cox shows how the shelter's residentsâ young black women whose average age is twentyâ critique their social marginalization and find creative ways to exercise their agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359319
• ISBN-10: 0822359316
• Artikelnr.: 41608705

Autorenporträt

Aimee Meredith Cox is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Part I. Terrain
Introduction  3
1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 
38
Part II. Scripts
2. Renovations  81
3. Narratives of Protest and Play  122
Part III. Bodies
4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies  155
5. The Move Experiment  185
Epilogue  237
Notes  243
References  263
Index  273