Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City

This book documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive...
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Author: Chhaya Kolavalli
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Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City by Kolavalli, Chhaya

Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City

$99.70

Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City

$99.70
Author: Chhaya Kolavalli
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This book documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth ethnographic research in Kansas City, Chhaya Kolavalli explores how urban food projects--central to the city's approach to green urbanism--are conceived and implemented and how they are perceived by residents of "food deserts," those intended to benefit from these projects.

Through her analysis, Kolavalli examines the narratives and histories that mostly white local food advocates are guided by and offers an alternative urban history of Kansas City--one that centers the contributions of Black and brown residents to urban prosperity. She also highlights how displacement of communities of color, through green development, has historically been a key urban development strategy in the city.

Well-Intentioned Whiteness shows how a myopic focus on green urbanism, as a solution to myriad urban "problems," ends up reinforcing racial inequity and uplifting structural whiteness. In this context, fine-grained analysis of how whiteness takes up space in our cities--even through progressive policy agendas--is more
important. Kolavalli examines this process intimately and, in so doing, fleshes out our understanding of how racial inequities can be (re)created by everyday urban actors.

Author: Chhaya Kolavalli
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 04/15/2023
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780820364094

About the Author
CHHAYA KOLAVALLI is a senior program officer for knowledge creation and research in entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (though the views in this book do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation). Her articles can be found in Gastronomica, Human Organization, and the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

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