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Road runners
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Race, space and immigrant mobilities in post-1965 Brooklyn
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Best
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Asha
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1983-
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Asha Best
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Timothy
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Timothy Raphael
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Kimberly
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Kimberly Holton
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Jason
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Krasovic
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Mark
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Mark Krasovic
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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This project looks at the emergence of the ‘dollar cab,’ an informal mode of transit similar to the minibuses and minivans of the Caribbean. This particular mode of transit allowed Caribbean people to “make the strange familiar” by bringing to the U.S. urban landscape a form of labor, a social space, and a vernacular common in the post- colonial world. Drawing on archival research and urban ethnography conducted with 20 residents and dollar van drivers in the Caribbean neighborhood of East Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, as well as transit regulators the project maps geographies of postcolonial life and labor, and new forms of urbanity that emerge post-1965. Moving beyond narratives of urban decline, I argue that, within the place-making practices of black working class immigrants, we find a rich intellectual rubric for understanding shifting terrains of global capital and urbanization in U.S. cities. Interdisciplinary in nature, the work both draws on and complicates mobilities studies, post-colonial urban studies, and understandings of how the global city is mapped and produced.
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American Studies
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History
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by Asha Best
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ETD doctoral
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Asha
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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