Black Belt Brooklyn aims to illustrate and historicize Black practices of vitality, mutual-aid, and institution building during a period of widespread neglect by formal political institutions at every level. Using Black spatial production (or an emplaced “making a way out of no way”) Black residents produce place counter to official geographies and understandings of urban space that draws from practices of Black resistance, community organizing, and institution building. Thus, Black Belt Brooklyn serves as a tool in a “technology of recovery,” (Gallon 2016) excavating time-space activities, events, and socialities.
Gallon, K. (2016) “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.” In Gold, M.K. and Klein, L. (eds), Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
