The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City

Tyler Denmead

Published by Duke University Press 2019

The Creative Underclass

Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City

Tyler Denmead

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007319

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About this book

Tyler Denmead critically examines his role as the founder of New Urban Arts—a nonprofit arts program for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island—and how despite its success, it unintentionally contributed to Providence's urban renewal efforts, gentrification, and the displacement of people of color.

Author / Editor information

Tyler Denmead is University Lecturer of Arts and Creativity in Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Queens’ College.

Reviews

-- Rebekah Modrak, author of Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice

-- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison

-- Darlene E. Clover International Review of Education

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Troublemaking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
2. The Hot Mess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Chillaxing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn’t Get Creative-Class Jobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
5. Autoethnography of a “Gentrifying Force” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. “Is This Really What White People Do” in the Creative Capital? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Other: 10 illustrations

eBook

Published: November 8, 2019
ISBN: 9781478007319