Baltimore Revisited -

Baltimore Revisited

Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City
Buch | Hardcover
378 Seiten
2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9402-6 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling American city. Yet the truth about Baltimore is far more complicated—and more fascinating.

 

To help untangle these apparent paradoxes, the editors of Baltimore Revisited have assembled a collection of over thirty experts from inside and outside academia. Together, they reveal that Baltimore has been ground zero for a slew of neoliberal policies, a place where inequality has increased as corporate interests have eagerly privatized public goods and services to maximize profits. But they also uncover how community members resist and reveal a long tradition of Baltimoreans who have fought for social justice.

 

The essays in this collection take readers on a tour through the city’s diverse neighborhoods, from the Lumbee Indian community in East Baltimore to the crusade for environmental justice in South Baltimore. Baltimore Revisited examines the city’s past, reflects upon the city’s present, and envisions the city’s future.

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.    

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Lawrence Brown, Daniel L. Buccino
Zusatzinfo 24 b-w images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 653 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8135-9402-2 / 0813594022
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-9402-6 / 9780813594026
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