TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denmead,Tyler
TI  - The creative underclass: youth, race, and the gentrifying city 
SN  - 9781478006596
U1  - 700.103 DEN 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - New Urban Arts (Providence, R.I.)
KW  - Arts and youth
KW  - Rhode Island
KW  - Providence
KW  - African American youth
KW  - Education (Secondary)
KW  - Art and race
KW  - Gentrification
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index; Troublemaking -- The hot mess -- Chillaxing -- Why the creative underclass doesn't get creative-class jobs -- Autoethnography of a "gentrifying force" -- Is this really what white people do in the creative capital?
N2  - "As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence's urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence's leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kickstart the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-income communities use to resist their subjectification as members of an underclass which, along with redistributive economic policies can be deployed as an effective means with which to both to oppose gentrification and better serve the youth who have become emblematic of urban creativity." -- Provided by publisher
ER  -