African Americans in White Suburbia

McGowen, Ernest B.

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“…A notable case of this at the level of the home is trespassing. While white people standing on their land might be presumed to be the homeowners of that land, black people are regularly targeted on their own property as trespassers or burglars (Beck 2020; McGowen III 2017; Perry 2011). Racial profiling undermines the prized cultural ideals residents secure with their own boundaries and exclusion.…”

Section: Formal Types Of Invasionmentioning

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The Social Logic of Invasion

Peña‐Alves

2024

Symbolic Interaction

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In this article, I theorize invasion as a sociocognitive phenomenon grounded in conceptual relations between the social statuses of “in” and “out.” Pulling invasion out of its ordinary and historically physical context, I explore how people share similar ways of envisioning invasions across a wide variety of domains in social life. To demonstrate this, I employ the qualitative concept‐driven comparative method of trans‐level analysis, tracing common mental models of invasion in the cases of the body, the home, and the nation‐state. Drawing from a sample of 42 in‐depth interviews as well as discourse and policy materials, I find that people envision invasion to take four basic forms: entry and existence, contamination, theft, and domination. Offering the concept of invasion subversion, I explore the highly contestable nature of invasions and the semiotic strategies of marking and unmarking that people leverage to challenge and reinforce arrangements between “in” and “out.” Ultimately, I show that invasions foreground social order and make visible the tacit rules of inclusion and exclusion that shape it. This study advances and extends the study of inclusion and exclusion to cognitive sociological terrain.

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Section: Formal Types Of Invasionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Social Logic of Invasion

Peña‐Alves

2024

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“…Due to how histories of racialized disinvestment shape access to resources, opportunity, and safety, many Black families have relocated to the suburbs after significant effort to remain in urban communities (Clerge, 2019; Kellogg, 2010). Therefore, for many Black suburbanites, urban communities remain sites of care that are foundational to their sense of belonging and political commitments (Clerge, 2019; Lacy, 2004; McGowen, 2017). These place attachments can provoke efforts to resist and (re)vision against and beyond inequitable spatial dynamics—a counter-hegemonic placemaking practice that draws from Black communities’ use of public space and community life to create networks of support and survival (Berglund, 2020; Hunter et al, 2016; Lipsitz, 2007).…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Black Placemaking and Alternative Mapp...mentioning

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Embracing the City: Black Families’ Place Attachments and (Re)imaginings of the City and Suburb in Search of Educational Opportunity

Nickson

2022

AERA Open

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Like many predominantly Black urban cities, Detroit, Michigan, has experienced significant out-migration among Black residents over the past 30 years. This situation has altered families’ relationships to the communities and schools where they have been nurtured or call home. Therefore, this paper examines how seven Black families’ place attachments influenced their geographic movement and school choices in the Detroit metropolitan region. Findings show that despite families’ movement to surrounding suburbs, varied experiences in Detroit influenced families’ decision-making regarding where to live, their search for sociocultural experiences that supported their families holistically, and their perceptions and navigation of municipal boundaries and borders. Families’ intention toward maintaining connections with Detroit enact what I term embracing the city. Embracing the city helps consider the importance of socio-spatial ties that persist and orient Black families’ community perceptions and school choices in suburban contexts.

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“…Aside from reestablishing their living conditions, early Nicodemus settlers, like millions of other newly freed slaves, were facing the decision of their next steps, in terms of employment and amongst other aspects of their well-being (McGowen, 1998). The majority of White southerners were unhappy about losing the Civil War, and the newly freed slaves suffered tremendously as a result.…”

Section: Work Experiences Western Expansion and Professional Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment did eventually provide freedom from slavery, fruitful and lasting job opportunities were not readily available in the embattled southern states. Many African Americans left the south for these reasons and migrated to western states and continued their work as household servants, hired farmworkers, or farming their own land (Burden et al , 2011; McGowen, 1998). However, during this period of time, more jobs became available to African Americans, such as railroad workers, ranching, administrative work, teamsters’ delivery drivers and stagecoach drivers.…”

Section: Work Experiences Western Expansion and Professional Developmentmentioning

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Cooperative advantage during the pioneer movement west

Lloyd

Mertens

Adams

et al. 2020

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a supported and validated reference point for understanding how Nicodemus, Kansas warrants significant inclusion in both the history of management and current entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach This paper consists of a literature review to identify the salient historical and theoretical importance of the community of Nicodemus, Kansas. The research was conducted by reviewing and couching the research in this context. Findings Nicodemus, born out of an entrepreneurial spirit of newly liberated Black Americans, is the surviving entrepreneurial force for the African-American efforts in the western US expansion efforts in the later 1800s. The community, courage and cooperative views of the settlers were instrumental in overcoming a variety of hardships inherent in the location, society and time period to not only survive but also deliver growth and success. Nicodemus personified cultural pride and self-reliance, which fueled personal and commercial success. Practical implications The cooperative advantage is justified to be included in discussions of American management history, taught in the entrepreneurship curriculum and used by practitioners. Social implications Collective courage and cooperative advantage used by Nicodemus carries implications for how modern Black communities can advance their economic and social agendas. Originality/value Coverage of Black contributions management and entrepreneurship is scant, but a Black Enlightenment period has recently changed that scholars have recently begun to cover these significant moments in the literature (Prieto and Phipps, 2019). We argue that Nicodemus as an entrepreneurial community serves as a case study that needs contextualization in this Black Enlightenment era and holds pertinent implications for modern Black communities.

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African Americans in White Suburbia

Cited by 5 publications

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The Social Logic of Invasion

The Social Logic of Invasion

Embracing the City: Black Families’ Place Attachments and (Re)imaginings of the City and Suburb in Search of Educational Opportunity

Cooperative advantage during the pioneer movement west

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