Marcus Anthony Hunter, Zandria F. Robinson Chocolate Cities

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From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is maintained, created, and defended. But imaginewhat if current maps of Black life are wrong?Chocolate Citiesoffers a refreshing and persuasive rendering of the United Statesa ';Black map' that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America.Drawing on film, fiction, music, and oral history, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson trace the Black American experience of race, place, and liberation, mapping it from Emancipation to now.As the United States moves toward a majority minority society,Chocolate Citiesprovides a provocative, broad, and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America's social, economic, and political landscape.