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Displacing Blackness

Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax

by (author) Ted Rutland

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2018
Category
General, Social History, Historical Geography, Black Studies (Global), General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487503567
    Publish Date
    May 2018
    List Price
    $111.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487522728
    Publish Date
    May 2018
    List Price
    $49.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487518240
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
    List Price
    $49.95

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Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives.

 

While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making. Moving through a series of important planning initiatives, from a social housing project concerned with the moral and physical health of working-class residents to a sustainability-focused regional plan, Displacing Blackness shows how race – specifically blackness – has defined the boundaries of the human being and guided urban planning, with grave consequences for the city’s Black residents.

About the author

Ted Rutland is a professor at Concordia University. His research and activism focuses on the racial politics of urban planning and policing in Canadian cities. He is the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax.

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