Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on the role of space, place, material culture, and affect in the production of Black immigrant identities and subjectivities in Charlotte, North Carolina. Black American and Black immigrant spaces and places of consumption in East Charlotte construct a transethnic alternative community fostered by affective kinship. The chapter challenges popular conceptions of the US South by examining the role of agency held by diasporic stakeholders. The projected narrative of the New South is (re)placed via the agency of Black and brown subjects challenging policymakers and corporate entities. These cultural workers, agents and mediators are often Black American and Black immigrant women. As community organizers and social entrepreneurs, these women act as mothers in establishing transnational social/economic networks, nurturing the displaced and/or marginalized, countering contention between Black subjects, and fostering intersectional kinship, activism, visibility and sustainability in the US South. Through a mixed-method ethnographic approach, this chapter explores their work.
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