The Sweet Auburn Curb Market: The Search For Contested Space in the City Too Busy to hate

<p>The city of Atlanta has long boosted itself as the city too busy to hate: a place where business and southern hospitality thrive, without the social strife associated with the rest of the region. The Sweet Auburn Curb Market is an almost-century-old municipal market located in the Old Fourth Ward, one of Atlanta’s historic inner-city neighborhoods. By taking a close look at its history, as well as the consumption practices and products associated with the space, alternate histories and stories of resistance become illuminated. Utilizing oral histories, archival research and anthropological theory to investigate the market, this thesis examines its function as a contested space within the city of Atlanta’s heralded narrative. The market’s history is delineated by time period as well as topic, focusing on its conceptualization and creation, the effects of urban renewal, and the influence of gentrification and internationalization on the space. Through this methodology, it can be seen how the Sweet Auburn Curb Market contains numerous narratives of integration within an imperiled neighborhood of a still-segregated city, as well as of a global South in a community space that remained typically relegated to a strict racial binary.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Southern Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Southern Studies

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• King, Katie Carter

Contributors dc:contributor

• Andy Harper
• Catarina Passidomo Townes
• Barbara Combs

• Atlanta
• Contested Space
• Municipal Market
• Old Fourth Ward
• Social and Cultural Anthropology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1227

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2226