Talkin' 'bout the Ghetto: Popular Culture and Urban Imaginaries of Immobility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 674-688

  Jaffe, Rivke ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blackness; Caribbean; Immobility; Marginalization; Popular culture; Race

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; MARGINALIZATION; RACE; RACIAL IDENTITY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN POPULATION;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862874036     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01121.x     Document Type: Article

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