Segregated Boston as documented ground — the city IJ sets itself in and mostly edits out
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text:
[quote|scene] The book's first epigraph is Morgan v. Hennigan: "the predominantly black areas are cut away from the predominantly white areas" [m-1a:p3-4] [e-text]; M. maps the expressway border between Irish "Little Belfast" and North Dorchester [m-1a:p24], the gang-war economics ("At least two young men died as downpayments within a week of today’s recording session." [m-1a:p52]), busing's failure [m-1a:p82], and the WE CARE anti-violence rally coda [m-3i:p4-7]; D. glosses Hennigan as being "just as much about how people see as it is about where they live or learn" [d-1b:p63]
- IJ echo: IJ's Boston — Enfield/Brighton/Allston, ETA above and Ennet House below — where black Roxbury/Dorchester appears only in flashes (Wardine, scene 008, pp. 37-38; Roy Tony; the yrstruly circuit, scene 040, pp. 128-135); SR is the missing half of IJ's map, written by the same hand in the same city.
- Weight: shared-preoccupation