Economics and the Race Divide in a Southern City: From Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Intro: "On Feb. 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T University students quietly took seats at the segregated Woolworth's lunch counter and waited to be served, igniting a black-led movement that spread to the Kress Building and other retail outlets and ultimately resulted in the demolition of segregated public accommodations in Greensboro's downtown business district. While the sit-ins are now widely celebrated by city leaders, throughout the '60s the white political establishment alternated between pleas for dialogue and stubborn resistance in its response to black demands for justice. Fast-forward 35 years and the same odd marriage of civility and racial tension seems to define city politics. And along with jobs, education and healthcare, consumer choice remains one of the major arenas in the struggle for racial equality. But despite the recent resurgence of downtown, with its thriving nightclubs, restaurants and boutiques, the action has moved out to the residential sections of the Greensboro." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
