Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District

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 materia...