Race, Culture, and the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban Struggle (S U N Y SERIES, TEACHER EMPOWERMENT AND SCHOOL REFORM)

By Stephen Nathan Haymes

Book Overview

The author argues that "race" as a social construction is one of the most powerful categories for constructing urban mythologies about blacks, and that this is significant in a dominant white supremacist culture that equates blackness and black people with both danger and the exotic. The book examines how these myths are realized in the material landscapes of the city, in its racialization of black residential space through the imagery of racial segregation. This imagery along with the racializing of crime portrays black residential space as natural "spaces of pathology," and in need of social control through policing and residential dispersion and displacement.

It is in this context that Haymes proposes the development of a pedagogy of black urban struggle that incorporates critical pedagogy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791423832
• ISBN13: 9780791423837
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Powerful Postmodern Critique of Urban Racism in America

This is an excellent book! For a full-length review of this book see the Journal of Negro Education, Vol 65 No 4. Haymes has demonstrated how inner-city America is becoming the center of new white consumer culture and how the dynamics of race, culture, and economics interplay in a manner that is aesthetically and financially beneficial to whites and culturally and socially destructive to Blacks.