Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Anthropology
Major Professor
Antoinette T. Jackson, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Roberta Baer, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Kevin Yelvington, D. Phil.
Committee Member
Cheryl Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Ph.D.
Keywords
Intersectionality, Black feminist, Collaborative ethnography, Segregation, Gentrification, Military
Abstract
This study is a community-engaged investigation of the experiences and impacts of Black people living in the segregated space called “Carver City-Lincoln Gardens.” This study aims to advance scholarly and mainstream conversations about one racialized community; it is a significant space because the Lincoln Gardens Area was explicitly designated by the Department of Defense as a residential space for Black veterans after World War II to purchase homes. By exploring this housing arrangement through an anthropological lens, the findings indicate that a mixed-method, collaborative ethnography reveals nuances that might be glossed over when communities are racialized. This study also seeks to add a gendered lens to the existing literature in the anthropology of heritage and the anthropology of segregated spaces that are necessary interventions to reveal nuanced insights. Ethnographic interviews, group interviews, participant observations, and archival data reveal some long-term impacts of racial segregation through intergenerational and gendered standpoints.
Scholar Commons Citation
Armstrong, Lisa Katina, "Ethnographic Insight on the Construct of Blackness: Heritage, ‘Home,’ Community, and Reality in Carver City-Lincoln Gardens, Tampa, Florida, 1928-2021" (2022). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/10271
