Summary Of Ain T Chicago

This Ain’t Chicago is Zandria F. Robinson’s study of the relationship between location and race, class, and gender. She identifies the regional differences, specifically of the African-Americans living in the south and north. The study analytically separates the southern blacks from their fictive kin and whites they correlate with in order to explore the differences in regional identities. The study took place in Memphis because Zandria believes that it “sits at the physical, temporal, and epistemological intersection of rural and urban, soul and post soul, and civil rights and post- civil rights.” (Robinson, pg. 3) Robinson understood that the popular representation is important when exploring the identity of a group. She used popular culture,
She interviews Memphians, and uses meta- ethnography to translate the themes across her study. Zandria addresses many questions involving the relationship between region, class, race, and gender identities. How does regional identity correlate and impact the class, race, and gender identities in the post-soul south? How are the outlines of black identity reshaped and challenged based on the fact that the migration to the south by African– Americans has caused a shift of the geographic center for blacks? How do the black southerners, on the border of black and southern identity, harmonize regional and racial identities? This Ain’t Chicago aims to address Zandria’s questions by exploring the strained relations between the way black southerners are represented and their idea of their identities. T.V. and sources in the public eye shape the identity given to blacks, southerners, and black southerners. They present a changing, but constant, South by setting boundaries of blackness and Southernism with relation to the past and present region. The south is going though urbanization and demographic change, creating regional and cultural identity