Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

Author:   P. Nicole King ,  Kate Drabinski ,  Joshua Clark Davis ,  Lawrence Brown
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813594026


Pages:   378
Publication Date:   09 August 2019
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   P. Nicole King ,  Kate Drabinski ,  Joshua Clark Davis ,  Lawrence Brown
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9780813594026


ISBN 10:   0813594022
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   09 August 2019
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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[The book] is a fascinating accounts of public markets, vacant housing, highways. [It] stimulates curiosity about Baltimore at a time when friends and foes alike cite the city as the epitome of American urban ills. -- Journal of Urban Affairs The Baltimore School represents a school of thought that seeks to radically change how we understand cities and how we redistribute resources within them, by taking space, race, and political economy seriously. In the years to come, this work will be known as one of the central Baltimore School texts, used to help people understand Baltimore and cities like it, for the purpose of making it (and them) more just and humane. --Lester Spence Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Revisited presents an important and compelling portrait of Baltimore's past to advocate a more just present and future. Not just a book about Baltimore, this collection can serve as a roadmap for scholars, students, and civic leaders seeking to understand how cities take the shape they do and what can be done to challenge those patterns when they deny justice to citizens. --Rebecca K. Shrum associate professor of history, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Trump's Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore Are Hiding an Awful Truth--And He Knows It, op-ed by Nicole King https: //www.newsweek.com/trumps-dehumanizing-attacks-baltimore-are-hiding-awful-truth-he-knows-it-opinion-1452035-- Newsweek


The Baltimore School represents a school of thought that seeks to radically change how we understand cities and how we redistribute resources within them, by taking space, race, and political economy seriously. In the years to come, this work will be known as one of the central Baltimore School texts, used to help people understand Baltimore and cities like it, for the purpose of making it (and them) more just and humane. --Lester Spence Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Revisited presents an important and compelling portrait of Baltimore's past to advocate a more just present and future. Not just a book about Baltimore, this collection can serve as a roadmap for scholars, students, and civic leaders seeking to understand how cities take the shape they do and what can be done to challenge those patterns when they deny justice to citizens. --Rebecca K. Shrum associate professor of history, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis


Author Information

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.    

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