Analysis Of This Ain T Chicago By Zandria Robinson

The south always feels like home each year that I go. The south is a part of my ethnicity history and where most of my ancestors lived. The author of the book, This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, analyzes and evaluates the pulls between urban and rural areas around the Memphis city and their takes on race, class, gender, and region on black identity in today’s era. To prove this, Zandria Robinson interviews many people-what is known as her “respondents”-whom are southerners. In addition to her respondents, Robinson uses the media to prove her argument. During the introduction, she explains why she decides to use respondents instead of “Memphians, because inasmuch as neighborhood and city contexts matter, region matters as well, sometimes even overshadowing city boundaries and limits. Because Memphis is neither a New South urban magnet, like Dallas, Charlotte, and …show more content…
Zandria Robinson was on the hunt to answer this question. She interviewed black southerners to get their take on what it truly means to be black and live in the south. She was about to analyze the northerners take on black identity in America today. In chapter one, Robison looks at Memphis as a whole and lays everything out to see what she is working with. She uses movies, rap artists, singers, writers, academics, etc. to show all of these things are representing the Black South. In chapter two, Cameron D. Lippard says that Robinson “sets up one of [her] more important theoretical themes of explaining black identity in the South that she identifies as ‘country cosmopolitanism’ in the American south” (Lippard). This chapter is where most of her respondents explain to her about the south really is and isn’t about. Chapter three is about how black southerners experience race and interact with whites, even though there is has been legalization on race discrimination. Chapter four