{"product_id":"well-intentioned-whiteness-green-urban-development-and-black-resistance-in-kansas-city-9780820364094","title":"Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth ethnographic research in Kansas City, Chhaya Kolavalli explores how urban food projects--central to the city's approach to green urbanism--are conceived and implemented and how they are perceived by residents of \"food deserts,\" those intended to benefit\u003cbr\u003efrom these projects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough her analysis, Kolavalli examines the narratives and histories that mostly white local food advocates are guided by and offers an alternative urban history of Kansas City--one that centers the contributions of Black and brown residents to urban prosperity. She also highlights how displacement of communities of color, through green development, has historically been a key urban development strategy in the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWell-Intentioned Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a myopic focus on green urbanism, as a solution to myriad urban \"problems,\" ends up reinforcing racial inequity and uplifting structural whiteness. In this context, fine-grained analysis of how whiteness takes up space in our cities--even through progressive policy agendas--is more\u003cbr\u003eimportant. Kolavalli examines this process intimately and, in so doing, fleshes out our understanding of how racial inequities can be (re)created by everyday urban actors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHHAYA KOLAVALLI is a senior program officer for knowledge creation and research in entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (though the views in this book do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation). Her articles can be found in \u003ci\u003eGastronomica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuman Organization\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFood Systems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCommunity Development\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554757382418,"sku":"9780820364094","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_620f04e3-444d-4bb1-b7dd-5f25a9c4d8b0.jpg?v=1731723042","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/well-intentioned-whiteness-green-urban-development-and-black-resistance-in-kansas-city-9780820364094","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}