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Availability:In StockContributor:Mercy RomeroSeries:Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of StudyPublish date:2021-12-17Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478014706ISBN-10:1478014709UPC:9781478014706Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:Urban, American, City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCGXHH57XM
In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses-her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold.

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478014706ISBN-10:1478014709UPC:9781478014706Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:Urban, American, City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCGXHH57XM
Mercy Romero is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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