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Drawing on Keisha-Khan Perry's article, "If We Didn't Have Water" and the section in Guest starting on p. 142 called "Resisting Racism", describe how the struggles of the African American residents of Corona, Queens and the Afro-Brazilian residents of Gamboa de Baixo, Brazil are similar. Give two to three similarities and describe them with reference to the texts. Need two citation from each article, and require at least 350 words.

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Resisting Racism Along with the history of individual and institutional racism, it is important to also acknowledge the long tradition of work against racism that continues today. Anthropologist Steven Gregory’s ethnography Black Corona (1998) tells the story of the organized political resistance by a predominantly African American community in Corona, Queens, in New York City, when confronted by attitudes and policy expressions of racial discrimination. The African American community in Corona dates back to the 1820s, and it expanded under an influx of middle- class residents from Harlem in the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1970s, however, Corona, like many other urban U.S. communities, began to feel the devastating impact of globalization, particularly flexible accumulation, as New York City’s economy deindustrialized. At this time, the city’s economy moved from an industrial and manufacturing base to one driven by finance, information, and services (Baker 1995; Harvey 1990). As New York lost thousands of manufacturing jobs and billions of dollars in tax revenue and federal funds, residents of Corona struggled during the transition. In the face of drastic government cutbacks to basic community services such as housing, education, and public safety, residents of Corona’s LeFrak City— a public housing complex containing 6,000 rental apartments— mobilized to demand sustained public investment in the maintenance and security of the property from their landlord, the City of New York. Confronting stereotypes of the apartment complex as a site of crime, welfare dependency, and family disorganization, African American parents in LeFrak City founded Concerned Community Adults (CCA), a community- based civic association, to engage in neighborhood improvement projects and strengthen relationships with the city’s politicians and agencies. The CCA’s Youth Forum organized neighborhood young people for social activities and leadership formation; together with the CCA, it worked to improve relations with the local police, who regularly harassed youth in the area. Through community- based action, LeFrak City residents worked with churches, community groups, and informal associations to establish their position as political actors, assert control over the neighborhood’s physical condition, and insist on self- definition rather than accept the stereotypes held by surrounding communities and city leaders. In the early 1990s, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey— which controls the area’s airports, bridges, and port facilities— announced plans to build an elevated light rail train between Manhattan’s central business district and LaGuardia Airport that would cut directly through the heart of Corona’s African American community. Residents had had extensive negative experiences battling the city over earlier plans to expand LaGuardia, which abuts Corona, that involved the loss of waterfront properties to the construction of runways, highway access, and exposure to the pollution of adjacent Flushing Bay. In its new plan, the Port Authority, representing the City of New York, argued that the city needed improved public transportation between Manhattan and LaGuardia to compete in the global economy and in the burgeoning global financial services industry. The elevated rail line through Corona, the argument went, would be good for the city’s economy. Corona residents warned that construction of this major infrastructure project through their community would not have any local benefit but instead would generate severe environmental consequences, lower the quality of life in the neighborhood, and divide and isolate portions of the community. They demanded that the rail line be built underground on property already owned by New York City between Corona and the airport that had been carved out to build the Grand Central Parkway years earlier. Local residents formed neighborhood committees and alliances with existing civic organizations, community groups, and churches. They engaged the city’s public planning process and established alternative political forums outside the government’s control to press for their case. They also created multicultural alliances with concerned groups in neighboring communities. Eventually the Port Authority abandoned the planned elevated train. Gregory’s ethnographic study of Corona’s African American community reveals the power of local communities of color to mobilize and engage in political activism. It also demonstrates how such groups can contest the stereotypes of urban black communities and the practices of racial discrimination and exclusion, whether those involve housing, policing, or the environmental and community impacts of public infrastructure projects. For a look at efforts to combat racism in a different context, see “Anthropologists Engage the World,” on pages 228–229.
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THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM
The African American residents of Corona, Queens and the Afro-Brazilian residents of
Gamboa de Baixo were both fighting against unfair government practices which threatened to
harass their kind and push them out of their residential homes and lands. These practices were both
viewed as infrastructural revitalization by the government but were being planned without
considering the effects they would have on the residents of Gamboa de Baixo and Corona, Queens.
In Corona, the government was pl...


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