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O'Brien, Lauren C.. Ghosts of the brick city: the history of Black dispossession, public memory, and urban renewal in Newark, NJ. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-7b5g-7w65

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TitleGhosts of the brick city: the history of Black dispossession, public memory, and urban renewal in Newark, NJ
NameO'Brien, Lauren C. (author); Rizzo, Mary (chair); Bartkowski, Fran (member); Cooper, Melissa (member); Fuentes, Marisa (member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-05 (degree)
SubjectAfrican American studies, American studies, History, African American, Land dispossession, Public memory, Slavery, Urban renewal, Newark (N.J.)
Extent188 pages
DescriptionInspired by Black feminist epistemologies of critically engaging with “silences” of the archive, my dissertation challenges the idea that there is a lack of viable source material to construct a detailed history of Black Newark prior to the Great Migration. Ghosts of the Brick City traces the continuity of Black dispossession from the physical landscape, the archive, to the creation of public memory in order to illustrate that one of the enduring afterlives of slavery in Newark was the erasure of the significant role enslaved people and their descendants had within the founding of the city. From Newark’s inception to the mid-twentieth century, city leaders and industrialists designed the city as a white terrain by inscribing the land with both legible and invisible markers of white supremacy that consistently reminded Black Newarkers of their marginalized place. By examining a diverse array of cultural artifacts that include historical newspaper clippings, commemorative public monuments, city planning documents, and oral histories, this project argues that despite persistent racism and disenfranchisement, Black Newarkers possess(ed) a resilient spirit and long tradition of creative placemaking that affirmed their right to an evolving Newark.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-7b5g-7w65
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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