Abstract
The articles in this issue derive from a public heritage project initiated by Anthropology faculty and students at the University of South Florida. It was designed to salvage memories of the Central Avenue business and entertainment district, previously located on the edge of downtown Tampa, Florida. Central Avenue was eradicated in the mid 1970s as part of a large scale urban redevelopment project. For generations this area nurtured African American community life in Tampa. Twenty years after its destruction, in a city where the vast majority the population was born elsewhere, or were not born at all when redevelopment occurred, there are few citizens who knew anything about Central Avenue. Our goal was to resurrect this ghostly landscape, to make it part of the public heritage of Tampa, and to underscore its importance in the ongoing discourse about race relations and the historical contributions of African Americans.
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