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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Rutland, Ted, 1977-     Subjects     City planning -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.     Power -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.     Halifax (N.S.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rutland, Ted, 1977-       by title:      Displacing Blackness...       by call number:      307.1216 R979d     Search the Web     Rutland, Ted, 1977-     City planning -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.     Power -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.     Halifax (N.S.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Displacing Blackness : power, planning, and race in twentieth-century Halifax / Ted Rutland. by Rutland, Ted, 1977- University of Toronto Press, 2018. Call #: 307.1216 R979d Subjects City planning -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.   Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.   Power -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.   Halifax (N.S.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781487522728 (pbk.) Description:  xiv, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction; 2 "Higher Living through Environment": The Reformers, the Slums, and the Emergence of Modern Urban Planning; 3 Planning the Town White: Comprehensive Planning, Scientific Racism, and the Destruction of Africville; 4 A Calibrated Rush for Progress: Urban Renewal, Anti-Blackness, and the Diverse Effects of a Totalizing Planning Project; 5 "A Place to Enjoy Oneself": Anti-Renewal Activism, Citizen Involvement, and the Limits of Urban Amenity; 6 Planning by Other Means: The Black United Front and the Struggle for Self-Determination7 Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning, and the Boundaries of Economic Life; 8 Conclusion. Summary:  While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-Blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 307.1216 R979d Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Local History Collection 307.1216 R979d Non-circulating Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 307.1216 R979d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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