Chocolate cities: the black map of American life

When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see?

Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B.

Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive.

Now how do you see the United States? This book offers a new cartography of the United States - a 'Black Map' that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America.

Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analysing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience.