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The Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 11-26-2018 The "New" Black in the New South: Negotiating Race and Space in North Carolina's Immigrant Communities Masonya Joy Bennett Florida International University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the Public Affairs Commons Recommended Citation Bennett, Masonya Joy, "The "New" Black in the New South: Negotiating Race and Space in North Carolina's Immigrant Communities" (2018). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4066. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4066 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida THE NEW BLACK IN THE NEW SOUTH: NEGOTIATING RACE AND SPACE IN NORTH CAROLINA’S IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in GLOBAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL STUDIES by Masonya J. Bennett 2019 To: Dean John F. Stack Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs This dissertation, written by Masonya J. Bennett, and entitled The New Black in the New South: Negotiating Race and Space in North Carolina’s Immigrant Communities, having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgement. We have read this dissertation and recommendation that it be approved. ____________________________________ Guillermo Grenier ___________________________________ Percy Hintzen ___________________________________ Benjamin Smith ___________________________________ Alexandra Cornelius ___________________________________ Andrea Queeley, Major Professor Date of Defense: November 26, 2018 The dissertation of Masonya J. Bennett is approved. ___________________________________ Dean John F. Stack Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs ____________________________________ Andrés G. Gil Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Dean of the University Graduate School Florida International University, 2019 ii ã Copyright 2019 by Masonya J. Bennett All rights reserved. iii DEDICATION To my parents, Winnie and Nelson, without their undying love and support, none of this would be possible. To my Grandmothers, their strength lives. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The completion of research and writing composing this dissertation was made possible thanks to a two-semester Florida International University Dissertation Year Fellowship. I am also thankful for a Florida International University Dissertation Evidence Acquisition Fellowship that awarded me the opportunity to complete the research presented in this dissertation. I thank the Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship for assisting me both financially and intellectually in the development of a proposal that eventually flourished into this dissertation. I thank African and African Diaspora Studies and Global and Sociocultural Studies for their continued support. Since my first semester of classes in the joint M.A/Ph.D. program in African and African Diaspora Studies and Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, I have been inspired by the expertise, presentation, and drive of Dr. Andrea J. Queeley. I will never be able to thank her enough for believing in me and my project, and for her mentorship, and for each day, each trial, and each chapter shaping me into a better academic, a better professional, a better and stronger black woman. I am grateful for the support, knowledge and guidance of my dissertation committee members: Dr. Guillermo Grenier, Dr. Percy Hintzen, Dr. Benjamin Smith, and Dr. Alexandra Cornelius, one of the first people I met in African and African Diaspora Studies, and who always made me feel at home. I must also extend great thanks and gratitude to Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, who paved the way for me to be in the program by admitting me into African and African Diaspora Studies, and granting me funding. Dr. Rahier also served on my African and African Diaspora Studies M.A. Thesis Committee. v African and African Diaspora Studies became my family and I am forever grateful to be a part of such a wonderful and beautiful department. I thank East Charlotte for simply being East Charlotte for all of these years, beginning with my time as an intern at International House while studying at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; both introduced me to immigrants in Charlotte nearly ten years ago. I am grateful for all of my participants who dedicated their time and their voice to my project, I hope that soon the city and state recognize these people and their voices for what and who they are, the New South. I thank my dear friend Krystle Brown for recruiting participants and Dr. Simone Hunter and Vanita Beavers for tasting, seeing, and feeling East Charlotte with me. I thank Janae Edwards for endless conversations on everything Diaspora, our conversations gave life to this dissertation. I thank Nachéz Saunders and Bria Lamb for being there. To my support system in GSS; Aysha Preston, Abby Gondek, Mariama Jaiteh, and Martin Tsang, I give all of my love. This dissertation could not have transpired without the love and support of my family. I am beyond thankful for my mother, Winnie Bennett, for being everything a mother can be and more: my best friend, my editor, my therapist, my coach. My father, Nelson Bennett, for being Nelson, he is all powerful. I am forever grateful for the black women that inspired my drive to be an educator and academic: Dr. Linda Strong Leek, Dionnya Pratt, Winnie Bennett, Synetha Pratt and Brenda McNeely Allen. To Sophia Pratt, thank you for everything. My cousins Devonte Hinton and Diondre Pratt, and my sister, Adrienne Bennett, I thank you for all you did from near and far. Lastly, I am forever grateful for my cousin Justin Allen who was my family support system during my time in Miami and who is no longer with us today. vi ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION THE NEW BLACK IN THE NEW SOUTH: NEGOTIATING RACE AND SPACE IN NORTH CAROLINA’S IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES by Masonya J. Bennett Florida International University, 2019 Miami, Florida Professor Andrea Queeley, Major Professor This dissertation explores identity and subject formation among black immigrant populations in Charlotte, N.C, a non-traditional gateway city. It interrogates claims made by regional scholars and policy-makers that, due to recent demographic shifts and economic development, Charlotte embodies the “New South”, a designation signifying the transition from an agricultural to a corporation-based economy and from a racially polarized to a multicultural society. Based upon 18 months of ethnographic research utilizing a mixed method approach among immigrants of African descent in the trans- ethnic enclave of East Charlotte, the dissertation focuses on the role of space, place, material culture and affect in black subject formation, demonstrating that East Charlotte is a trans-ethnic alternative community fostered by affective kinship. It argues that black subjects are compelled to create alternative spaces of belonging and inclusion and that these alternative spaces are representative of what I propose is an “Alternative New South,” one that more truly embodies the character of the New South articulated in mainstream narratives. The people, spaces, places and things that compose this vii Alternative New South reflect the alterity, contention, and solidarity that black immigrant subjects in Charlotte encounter, embrace, and embody. By asserting the model of a trans- ethnic-alternative community, my work (re)places the agency of constructing the projected narrative of the New South in the hands of black and brown subjects, not policy-makers and corporate entities. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION THE NEW BLACK IN THE NEW SOUTH.................................................................... 1 Conceptualizing Black Subjectivities in the U.S. South ............................................... 3 Black Immigrants in a Pre-Emerging Gateway City ..................................................... 5 Methodology ............................................................................................................... 9 Theoretical Framework.............................................................................................. 15 Chapter Overview ..................................................................................................... 19 CHAPTER ONE THE QUEEN CITY’S NEW SOUTH ........................................................................... 27 The Birth of a Queen City: Charting a Southern Ontology ......................................... 33 Didn’t Think We Had It In Us: The New South, a Dangerous Discourse and a Cultural Ontology ...................................................................................................... 39 Uptown Charlotte: A Corporate Culture and a Perpetual Identity Crisis ..................... 52 Queens Versus Queens: Navigating Charlotte’s Landscapes as a Black Subject ......... 65 East Charlotte: A Metaphor for a Real New South ..................................................... 72 Conclusion: A New South? .......................................................................................
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