Baltimore Revisited

Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City
Herausgeber: King, P Nicole; Davis, Joshua Clark; Drabinski, Kate

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Produktbeschreibung

Nicknamed both ""Mobtown"" and ""Charm City"" and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. The essays in this collection take readers on a tour through the city's diverse neighbourhoods, from the Lumbee Indian community in East Baltimore to the crusade for environmental justice in South Baltimore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780813594019
• ISBN-10: 0813594014
• Artikelnr.: 55390427

Autorenporträt

P. NICOLE KING is an associate professor and chair of the department of American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Sombreros and Motorcycles in the Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry. KATE S. DRABINSKI is a senior lecturer in gender and women's studies and director of Women Involved in Learning and Leadership, a feminist activist program, both at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.   JOSHUA CLARK DAVIS is an assistant professor of history at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs.    

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Epigraph:
Placed Love,
Shawntay Stocks
Preface:
Linda Shopes
 
Introduction
P. Nicole King, Joshua Clark Davis, and Kate S. Drabinski
Section 1: Place and Power: Roots of (In)Justice in the City 
Chapter 1: The City That Eats: Food and Power in Baltimore's Early Public
Markets
Robert J. Gamble
Chapter 2: "Shove Those Black Clouds Away!": Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow
Neighborhoods in Baltimore Before Brown
Emily Lieb
                                                                                                                              
Chapter 3: "The Pot": Criminalizing Black Neighborhoods in Jim Crow
Baltimore 
Michael Casiano
                                                                          
Chapter 4: Vacant Houses and Inequality in Baltimore from the Nineteenth
Century to Today
Eli Pousson
Chapter 5: (snapshot): A Psychology of Place: Race, Violence, and Community
in Baltimore
Daniel Buccino and Teresa Méndez  
Chapter 6 (snapshot): Community Health and Baltimore Apartheid: Revisiting
Development, Inequality, and Tax Policy
Lawrence Brown                      
Section 2: Histories of Contestation and Activism in a Legacy City
Chapter 7: The Riot Environment: Sanitation, Recreation, and Pacification
in the Wake of Baltimore's 1968 Uprising        
Leif Fredrickson
Chapter 8: "The People's Side of the Road": Movement Against Destruction
and Organizing Across Lines of Race, Class, and Neighborhood          
Shannon Darrow
Chapter 9: More than a Store: Activist Businesses in Baltimore
Joshua Clark Davis
Chapter 10 (snapshot): "Welfare isn't a single issue:" Baltimore's Welfare
Rights Movement, 1960s-1980s 
Amy Zanoni
Chapter 11: The Last Censors: The Life and Slow Death of Maryland's Board
of Motion Picture Censors, 1916-1981
Joe Tropea
Chapter 12 (snapshot): "Temple of Drama": The Six-Year Protest at Ford's
Theater, 1947-1952
Jennifer A. Ferretti
Section 3: Voices from Here: Listening to the Past         
Chapter 13: "Because They Were Also Downed People": Black-Jewish
Relationships in Baltimore During the 1968 Uprising and Beyond   
Jacob R. Levin
Chapter 14 (snapshot): Korean Communities in Baltimore
Aletheia Hyun-Jin
Shin                                                                       
Chapter 15: The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore's
Fells Point
Ashley Minner
Chapter 16: Over-Burdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and
Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant
Chapter 17 (snapshot): Finding Closure: The Poets of Sparrows Point Steel
Mill
Michelle L. Stefano
Chapter 18: Baltimore's Socialist Feminists-Lessons From Then, Lessons For
Now: Community Empowerment and Urban Collectives in the 1970s
Elizabeth Morrow Nix, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, and Jodi
Kelber-Kaye
Chapter 19: Relentlessly Gay: A Conversation on LGBTQ Stories in Baltimore
Kate S. Drabinski and Louise Parker Kelley
Section 4: Surviving in the Neoliberal City: Redevelopment in Baltimore
Chapter 20: Johns Hopkins University and the History of Developing East
Baltimore
Marisela B. Gomez
Chapter 21: Image and Infrastructure: Making Baltimore a Tourist City
Mary Rizzo
Chapter 22: Skywalk: The Life and Death of Multilevel Urbanism in Downtown
Baltimore
Fred Scharmen
Chapter 23 (snapshot): Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore, Sharp
Leadenhall
Matt Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins
Chapter 24: The Superblock: A Downtown Development Debacle, 2003-2015
P. Nicole King
Chapter 25 (snapshot): Under Armour's Global Headquarters and the
Redevelopment of South Baltimore
Richard E. Otten
Section 5: Democratizing the Archives
Chapter 26: Social History in the Archives: Baltimore's Enduring Legacy
Aiden Faust
Chapter 27 (snapshot): Building a More Inclusive History of Baltimore:
Preserving the Baltimore Uprising 
Denise D. Meringolo
 
Afterword: Shawntay Stock, Weaving Knowledges
Notes on
Contributors                                                                       
  
Index