The Chocolate Cities Sparknotes

Before taking this course I had a clue that like my race, Latinos, blacks had a community in which they felt safe to be who they are. One can see where black communities feel safe for they are surrounded by their race for they feel the safest free from prejudices, even though, now there is not as much racism as before it still exist in many situations seen around America. I was aware many blacks moved away to chase for freedom and jobs such as Latinos move from their home country to live the American Dream, however, Latinos choose to migrate to America unlike blacks who were forced to. I was unaware there was a term for this type of black communities which is referred to as chocolate cities. After completing this course I discovered, “Chocolate
The village comes from the statement “it takes a village to raise a child”, this saying is a reference to how the chocolate cities developed over time (58). The “village is the fundamental unit or nucleus for chocolate cities and Black geographies; it is also a metaphor and evidence for the enduring practice and importance of place making for marginalized and oppressed citizens” this village is the group of people who are willing to create this neighborhood for the black communities to live in freedom despite the fact that the government does not assist them (59).This is the collectiveness from multiple people to develop the child which is a city which helps blacks gain independence from the collections of events and injustices which hold them back from becoming powerful to fight for their rights. The soul of the chocolate cities is the ability to use their culture to speak out it was the ability “to unify voices and sounds across place, both in response to pressures from a changing and racialized music industry and in response to the imperatives of Black resistance across chocolate maps”(96).Blacks then developed soul music which was a major source to speak out their troubles and their ability to fight for freedom. Furthermore, “It presented the pain of Black life, pointed out systemic and individual perpetrators, and made explicit moral, ethical, and social political claims on the state” , this statement meant they fought for their freedom now through political means which permitted many blacks to rise and run for office (96). The power from chocolate cities arose from “ Majority-Black projects, blocks, schools, encampments, plantation fields, farms, churches, neighborhoods, and homes have been key to forming and sharpening the small axe that is Black power”(124). The ability to rise up and develop these projects allowed one to know they were