The Elsewhere Is Black

Tracing the flow of trash and waste from Brooklyn’ s poor Black neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia’ s Tidewater, Marisa Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of racial capitalism.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Introducing the Elsewhere 1
Flow 24
1. Toxic Culture 30
Infrastructure 59
2. Becoming Fill 65
Surplus 92
3. Revisions from Elsewhere 98
Disposal 133
4. Black Refractions 137
Junk 155
Conclusions: Fictions of Fabulous/Fabulative Ethnography 158
Notes 179
Bibliography 209
Index 239