Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Alfonso, R. I.,
Allgemein.
"This is a Black Paper," declared BUILD’s statement criticizing the Buffalo Public School system for providing inferior education to black children in Buffalo, New York. Written in 1967 by the community organization, BUILD (which stood for Build Unity, Independence, Liberty, and Dignity), "BUILD Black Paper Number One" was a call for change. Like other black communities in late 1960s America, black Buffalo was caught up in the fervor of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. A "Rust Belt" city, Buffalo was hit hard by deindustrialization, which, coupled with unemployment, segregated housing and unequal education, adversely affected its black community. In 1967, a riot exploded in Buffalo’s predominantly black East Side. This article analyzes statements made by black Buffalonians and argues that Black Power thrived in Buffalo in the late 1960s, through community organizations which attempted to address urban issues that negatively affected African Americans in a postindustrial city.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/140?rss=1
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
dos Santos, J. M. R.,
Allgemein.
In the early nineteenth century, the (obsolete) Portuguese urban fortifications were frequently ruined and suffering from a gradual desertion around them. With the emergence of patrimonial concerns, those defensive structures began being considered as historical and cultural monuments. As a result, the isolation of these monuments became a common practice that often created public green areas (gardens and parks) framing monuments, giving them a picturesque image. The consequences of these rehabilitation actions on urban fortifications in Portugal are analyzed here, focusing particularly on those that created new public green spaces within and around urban areas. In fact, the shape of several Portuguese cities was conditioned by those interventions: not only were breathing areas conceived in the middle of dense urban masses, allowing their fruition by local populations, but also some ancient urban belts associated with former defensive needs were recovered by those interventions.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/53?rss=1
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Williamson, F.,
Allgemein.
This article tells the story of a contested provincial election for sheriff which took place in Norwich during 1627. In light of recent scholarly critiques of studies that frame the early-modern period in terms of binary opposites, this article demonstrates that 1620s political culture is hard to define in such stark terms. Through a close reading of the events, characters, and outcomes of the election, this article also shows the importance of embedding local peculiarities into wider historiographical narratives of change, or continuity, and reveals the essential role of the urban middling sorts in shaping the political narratives of the Stuart period.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/3?rss=1
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Cardesin Diaz, J. M., Araujo, J. M.,
Allgemein.
The aim of the article is to examine the process of urbanization in Spain in the long term. Given the delay in the consolidation of Spanish urban history, the contribution of related disciplines, such as art history and urban planning, geography, and economics is also assessed. Careful attention is paid to the identification of continuities and breaks, as well as to the contextualization of the changes in the cities in relation to their role in the national and international context. The article is divided into four parts. First, an introduction to the evolution of urban history in Spain is provided. Subsequent sections analyze the urban process in three stages: the enlightenment reforms and the end of colonial empire (1746–1833), the end of the Ancient Regime and the new capitalist development (1833–1936), and the transition from dictatorship to the integration into the European Union.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/33?rss=1
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Bracken, G.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Wolfe, N. K.,
Allgemein.
The crack crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was a social and cultural tipping point with regards to race and the criminal justice system. The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, a ten-thousand-member, multiracial, faith-based community activist organization, was at the forefront of a local war against crack cocaine in the Bronx during the 1980s and 1990s. Their activism demonstrates that the impetus for the draconian response to crack came not only from law and order politicians but also from minority communities under siege. The Coalition demanded and aggressively lobbied for a punitive response to crack sellers and users from their own communities. These demands were made years before the passage of laws that ushered in a new age of racially discriminatory sentencing.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/18?rss=1
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Osman, S.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:51 a.m.,
Klopfer, A. N.,
Allgemein.
Oral histories of the Hurricane Katrina experience abound in stories of conscious decisions to "ride out the storm." My article explores the narrative of "choosing to stay" as an empowering narrative rooted in assertions of place-knowledge and traces its historical genealogy to the nineteenth century. I argue that claiming agency in New Orleans and articulating a sense of belonging and local identity through professed intimate knowledge of the local environment took shape as a strategy of resistance against dominant discourses of American progress after the Civil War. Ultimately, this counternarrative of connecting to place as "homeland," drawing on knowledge arising from lived experience, defied the normative twist of modernization, simultaneously reformulating power relations within the city. "Choosing to stay" thus turns out to be a long-lasting narrative not only of disaster, but of place, belonging, and community; without understanding its historical layers, we cannot fully make sense of this particular Katrina narrative.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/115?rss=1
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:48 a.m.,
Timothy J. Minchin,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 5, 2016, 6:48 a.m.,
Peter Cole,
Allgemein.
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