Tyler Denmead

The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City

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Produktbeschreibung

Tyler Denmead critically examines his role as the founder of New Urban Arts-a nonprofit arts program for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island-and how despite its success, it unintentionally contributed to Providence's urban renewal efforts, gentrification, and the displacement of people of color.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006596
• ISBN-10: 1478006595
• Artikelnr.: 55179498

Autorenporträt

Tyler Denmead is University Lecturer of Arts and Creativity in Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Queens’ College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgment  ix
Introduction  1
1. Troublemaking  30
2. The Hot Mess  45
3. Chillaxing  76
4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn't Get Creative-Class Jobs  96
5. Autoethnography of a "Gentrifying Force"  118
6. "Is This Really What White People Do" in the Creative Capital?  133
Conclusion  155
Notes  173
Biography  185
Index  197