Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Cabbagetown is one of Atlanta's oldest industrial settlements, built for employees of the South's first cotton processing mill in 1881 during the heyday of southeastern textile mills. Today its identity and sense of place is highly contested. Originally a white working class community oriented around the mill, today it is undergoing gentrification -- the mill has been converted into gated lofts, and there are few long-term residents still left. Remarkably, the neighborhood is still distinct and unusual. It's almost as if a sense of history has settled into the neighborhood's bones and imbued its new residents with a distinctive sense of place. Cabbagetown, Atlanta: (Re)Placing Identity documents the community's struggle over place-based identity. In particular, it examines how the community "(re)-placed" the mill as the center of the community.
Repository Citation
Crampton, Jeremy W.. ""Cabbagetown: (Re) Placing Identity"." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss3/23