The Pool Is Closed : Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim

Hannah S Palmer

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: LSU Press Okt 2024, 2024

0807181897 / 9780807181898

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Neuware - In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about how her young sons would learn to swim. Would they grow up accustomed to the stubbornly segregated pools of Atlanta Was it safe for them to wade in creeks laced with urban runoff or dive into the ever-warming, man-made swimming holes of the South Should they just join the Y But these weren't just parenting questions. In the South, how we swim and whether we have access to water at all is tied up in race and class. As she took her sons pool-hopping across Atlanta, Palmer found an intimate lens through which to view the city's neighborhoods. In The Pool Is Closed, she documents the creeks behind fences, the springs in the sewers, the lakes that had all but vanished since her own parents learned to swim. In the process, she uncovers complex stories about environmental history, water policy, and the racial politics of public spaces.Nothing prepared Palmer for the contamination, sewage, and bodies that appear when you look at water too long. Her search for water became compulsive, a way to make sense of the world. The Pool Is Closed is a book about water: where it flows and where it floods, who owns it, and what it costs. It's also a story about embracing parenthood in a time of environmental catastrophe and political anxiety, of dwindling public space and natural resources. It chronicles a year-long quest to find a place to swim and finding, instead, what makes shared water so threatening and wild. …

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Titolo
The Pool Is Closed : Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
Autore
Hannah S Palmer
Editore
LSU Press Okt 2024
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0807181897
ISBN 13
9780807181898
Peso dell'articolo
544 grammi
Dimensioni
218x150x30 mm

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