Deep Ellum Blues
"Deep Ellum Blues" expands upon the author’s narrative of growing up in suburban Dallas, Texas, to explore the relationship between the city’s Sunbelt sprawl and the fate of historical African American neighborhoods, particularly Deep Ellum and North Dallas’ Freedmantown. Deep Ellum, along...
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2007-10-01
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| description | "Deep Ellum Blues" expands upon the author’s narrative of growing up in suburban Dallas, Texas, to explore the relationship between the city’s Sunbelt sprawl and the fate of historical African American neighborhoods, particularly Deep Ellum and North Dallas’ Freedmantown. Deep Ellum, along with its legendary music scene built by the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely, all but disappeared with the construction of Central Expressway in the 1950s. It has since returned as a largely white center for alternative culture. Freedmantown has re-emerged as the gentrified "State-Thomas." These neighborhoods register the city’s changing racial geography and obliteration of history. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fef23bac9dfb4aef922dd6ad53778faf2022-12-22T00:14:54ZengEmory Center for Digital ScholarshipSouthern Spaces1551-27542007-10-0110.18737/M7KK6ZDeep Ellum BluesKevin Pask0Concordia University"Deep Ellum Blues" expands upon the author’s narrative of growing up in suburban Dallas, Texas, to explore the relationship between the city’s Sunbelt sprawl and the fate of historical African American neighborhoods, particularly Deep Ellum and North Dallas’ Freedmantown. Deep Ellum, along with its legendary music scene built by the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely, all but disappeared with the construction of Central Expressway in the 1950s. It has since returned as a largely white center for alternative culture. Freedmantown has re-emerged as the gentrified "State-Thomas." These neighborhoods register the city’s changing racial geography and obliteration of history.https://southernspaces.org/node/42633African American StudiesBusiness and CommerceMusicResidentialUrban and Suburban StudiesAfrican American Art |
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| title | Deep Ellum Blues |
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| topic | African American Studies Business and Commerce Music Residential Urban and Suburban Studies African American Art |
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