Marcus Anthony Hunter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199948130
- eISBN:
- 9780199333202
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199948130.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This book revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro over the course of the twentieth century. Through the dual lens of political agency ...
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This book revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro over the course of the twentieth century. Through the dual lens of political agency and critical historical events, this book follows the transformation of the neighborhood from being predominantly black at the beginning of the twentieth century into a largely white upper-middle-class and commercial neighborhood by the century’s conclusion. Employing the insights of an array of scholars such as Robin D. G. Kelley, James Scott, Cathy Cohen, William Julius Wilson, and Mary Pattillo, the book argues that black Philadelphians were by no means mere victims of large-scale socioeconomic, structural, and political changes such as deindustrialization of the local and national economy, urban renewal, and the growing federal intervention into urban America following World War II. As the book shows, black Americans framed their own understandings of urban social change, forging dynamic inter- and intraracial alliances that allowed them to shape their own migration from the old Black Seventh Ward to emergent black urban enclaves throughout Philadelphia. Whereas most urban studies analyze multiple facets of black life over the span of a few decades, the book extends the chronology to nearly a century, capturing events such as banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led antiurban renewal mobilization, and the changing politics emergent in post–civil rights Philadelphia.Less
This book revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro over the course of the twentieth century. Through the dual lens of political agency and critical historical events, this book follows the transformation of the neighborhood from being predominantly black at the beginning of the twentieth century into a largely white upper-middle-class and commercial neighborhood by the century’s conclusion. Employing the insights of an array of scholars such as Robin D. G. Kelley, James Scott, Cathy Cohen, William Julius Wilson, and Mary Pattillo, the book argues that black Philadelphians were by no means mere victims of large-scale socioeconomic, structural, and political changes such as deindustrialization of the local and national economy, urban renewal, and the growing federal intervention into urban America following World War II. As the book shows, black Americans framed their own understandings of urban social change, forging dynamic inter- and intraracial alliances that allowed them to shape their own migration from the old Black Seventh Ward to emergent black urban enclaves throughout Philadelphia. Whereas most urban studies analyze multiple facets of black life over the span of a few decades, the book extends the chronology to nearly a century, capturing events such as banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led antiurban renewal mobilization, and the changing politics emergent in post–civil rights Philadelphia.
Marcus Anthony Hunter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199948130
- eISBN:
- 9780199333202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199948130.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter sets the foundation for the rest of the book. It outlines the major faces of political agency and highlights the contents of the subsequent chapters. In addition, it describes the ...
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This chapter sets the foundation for the rest of the book. It outlines the major faces of political agency and highlights the contents of the subsequent chapters. In addition, it describes the methods and data employed to construct the analysis and sociopolitical history of the Black Seventh Ward and Philadelphia over the course of the twentieth century. This chapter also addresses and conveys the major strands of thought and argumentation in the existing discourse, and posits the major contributions of this book.Less
This chapter sets the foundation for the rest of the book. It outlines the major faces of political agency and highlights the contents of the subsequent chapters. In addition, it describes the methods and data employed to construct the analysis and sociopolitical history of the Black Seventh Ward and Philadelphia over the course of the twentieth century. This chapter also addresses and conveys the major strands of thought and argumentation in the existing discourse, and posits the major contributions of this book.
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835555
- eISBN:
- 9781469601755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869994_rosenthal.8
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Following World War II, hundreds of thousands of American Indians traveled to U.S. cities seeking jobs in the working-class neighborhoods throughout urban America. This chapter focuses on ...
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Following World War II, hundreds of thousands of American Indians traveled to U.S. cities seeking jobs in the working-class neighborhoods throughout urban America. This chapter focuses on deindustrialization, discussing the ways in which it contributed to changing American cities and its impact on American society. It also discusses the challenges faced by American Indians residing in the postindustrial city and the ways in which they dealt with deindustralization.Less
Following World War II, hundreds of thousands of American Indians traveled to U.S. cities seeking jobs in the working-class neighborhoods throughout urban America. This chapter focuses on deindustrialization, discussing the ways in which it contributed to changing American cities and its impact on American society. It also discusses the challenges faced by American Indians residing in the postindustrial city and the ways in which they dealt with deindustralization.
Arlene Dávila
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520286849
- eISBN:
- 9780520961920
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520286849.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region's “coming ...
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While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region's “coming of age”? This is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption are shaping the conversation about class and social inequality in Latin America. Through original and insightful ethnography, the author shows that class in the neoliberal city is increasingly defined by the shopping habits of ordinary people. Moving from the global operations of the shopping mall industry to the experience of shopping in places like Bogotá, Colombia, the book is an indispensable book for scholars and students interested in consumerism and neoliberal politics in Latin America and the world.Less
While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region's “coming of age”? This is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption are shaping the conversation about class and social inequality in Latin America. Through original and insightful ethnography, the author shows that class in the neoliberal city is increasingly defined by the shopping habits of ordinary people. Moving from the global operations of the shopping mall industry to the experience of shopping in places like Bogotá, Colombia, the book is an indispensable book for scholars and students interested in consumerism and neoliberal politics in Latin America and the world.
Edward W. Soja
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816666676
- eISBN:
- 9781452946870
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816666676.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the ...
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In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also a concrete example of spatial justice in action. This book argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, the book interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, it demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. The book focuses on such innovative labor-community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice.Less
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also a concrete example of spatial justice in action. This book argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, the book interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, it demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. The book focuses on such innovative labor-community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice.
Christian Montès
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226080482
- eISBN:
- 9780226080512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226080512.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This introductory chapter frames the study. A first approach searches for the models throwing light on the processes at work and for the theories explaining the formation, evolution, and image of ...
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This introductory chapter frames the study. A first approach searches for the models throwing light on the processes at work and for the theories explaining the formation, evolution, and image of urban America that help in understanding capitals. The process of capital selection is understood as a revealing moment of crisis. The approach is incremental, the progressive building of an explanatory model, without predetermining its components. Capitals are symbolic places that participate in the territorial construction, along with interactive adjustments with other ways of territorial structuring. Capital cities were and are the embodiment of power. A second approach deals with the position capitals have in the American urban system: Are state capitals more than simply symbolic towns? Do they form a parallel system, disconnected from the classical one, largely based on economic criteria? Do state capitals express an imbalance between form and function? The developmental delay of many of them will be here addressed.Less
This introductory chapter frames the study. A first approach searches for the models throwing light on the processes at work and for the theories explaining the formation, evolution, and image of urban America that help in understanding capitals. The process of capital selection is understood as a revealing moment of crisis. The approach is incremental, the progressive building of an explanatory model, without predetermining its components. Capitals are symbolic places that participate in the territorial construction, along with interactive adjustments with other ways of territorial structuring. Capital cities were and are the embodiment of power. A second approach deals with the position capitals have in the American urban system: Are state capitals more than simply symbolic towns? Do they form a parallel system, disconnected from the classical one, largely based on economic criteria? Do state capitals express an imbalance between form and function? The developmental delay of many of them will be here addressed.
Andrew S. Berish
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226044941
- eISBN:
- 9780226044965
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226044965.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This book showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with ...
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Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This book showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, the author bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering a framework for musical analysis that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma, the book depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.Less
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This book showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, the author bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering a framework for musical analysis that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma, the book depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
Sonya Salamon
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807845530
- eISBN:
- 9781469616094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807845530.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes how rural society has undergone a fundamental restructuring due to diminishing numbers of rural residents between 1950 and 1980, from 15.3 percent to being only 2 percent of ...
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This chapter describes how rural society has undergone a fundamental restructuring due to diminishing numbers of rural residents between 1950 and 1980, from 15.3 percent to being only 2 percent of the total United States population. As farms consolidated, fewer workers were needed to produce the same or more agricultural products, and rural residents were lured by nonfarm opportunities in urban America. A decline in farm family size also contributed to shrinking rural populations. These trends meant fewer families with children to fill country schools or customers to patronize rural businesses. When school systems consolidated, churches merged, or village businesses closed, rural communities lost crucial integrating institutions. Under these same economic and social circumstances some Midwestern rural communities maintained vitality while others deteriorated.Less
This chapter describes how rural society has undergone a fundamental restructuring due to diminishing numbers of rural residents between 1950 and 1980, from 15.3 percent to being only 2 percent of the total United States population. As farms consolidated, fewer workers were needed to produce the same or more agricultural products, and rural residents were lured by nonfarm opportunities in urban America. A decline in farm family size also contributed to shrinking rural populations. These trends meant fewer families with children to fill country schools or customers to patronize rural businesses. When school systems consolidated, churches merged, or village businesses closed, rural communities lost crucial integrating institutions. Under these same economic and social circumstances some Midwestern rural communities maintained vitality while others deteriorated.
