The Black Artists Leaving America (Published 2021)
DC is being gentrified like major cities everywhere. It raises the question: To whom does this place belong? That is a local question, but it is also an existential one. We are literally still fighting over whether Black people belong to their home places and whether their home places belong to them. Once, the formerly enslaved migrated to DC with
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“What are the benefits to living in a Black-majority city?” and, “Why do so many of us choose to stay in them?”
Andre M. Perry • Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.