Rhythm and Race: Riffs on New Orleans History
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Archiv für November 2013
„Just a Dream“: Big Bill Broonzy, the Blues, and Chicago’s Black Metropolis
This article based on primary research including collections from the Alan Lomax Collection from the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center, The Chicago Historical Society, The Pullman Company Papers from the Newberry Library, and the re…
From Politics to Protest and Politics: Civil Rights and Racial Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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„A Long Poem of Walking“: Flaneurs, Vendors, and Chronicles of Post-abolition Rio de Janeiro
Chronicle literature in early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro developed in tandem with the urban modernization that followed the abolition of slavery in 1888. Writers-flâneurs strolled city streets to observe human behavior in the new post-abol…
Urban Forms and Civic Space in Nineteenth- to Early Twentieth-Century Bangkok and Rangoon
Buddhist spaces in Bangkok and Rangoon both had long common traditions prior to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial incursions. Top–down central city planning with European designs transformed both cities. While Siamese kings person…
When the Motorman Mayor Met the Cable Car Ladies: Engendering Transit in the City That Knows How
Gender played an important role in framing arguments for and against modernizing San Francisco’s transit system by replacing cable cars with motor coaches. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, appeals for public support from cable car preserva…
Commentary on „The New Metropolitan History“
An analysis of the roles of corporate capital, home owners, and racialized groups in the three case studies presented in this special section of „The New Metropolitan History.“
„These Communities Have the Most to Gain from Valley Cityhood“: Color-Blind Rhetoric of Urban Secession in Los Angeles, 1996-2002
Activists in the San Fernando Valley between 1996 and 2002 renewed efforts to secede from the city of Los Angeles. The movement mobilized many of the constituencies and grievances associated with the 1970s tax revolt and anti-busing protests in the Va…
Urban Southeast Asia: Unity in Diversity
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Beyond Corporate Abandonment: General Motors and the Politics of Metropolitan Capitalism in Flint, Michigan
Following World War II, executives from the General Motors Corporation (GM) implemented a sweeping corporate growth plan that centered on the suburbanization of manufacturing. As part of this agenda of metropolitan capitalism, company officials shifte…