ABSTRACT Based on archival and interview research in the US and South Africa, this paper examines two moments of public debate around access to the space of department stores in Johannesburg and in Baltimore in the 1960s. In Baltimore, African American students organized a sit-in protest at lunch counters and restaurants of major department stores to contest not being served. In Johannesburg, the National Union of Distributive Workers (NUDW), campaigned against job reservation in service and clerical work in stores in Johannesburg to argue for black workers’ access to employment. The paper contends that as “intimate publics,” department stores offer a site to compare the affective articulations of race, class, and gender in both places, which track differing political imaginaries at a moment when consumption was expanding and workforces were changing.

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为“亲密的公众”服务：1960年代的约翰内斯堡和巴尔的摩百货商店

摘要根据美国和南非的档案和访谈研究，本文考察了有关1960年代约翰内斯堡和巴尔的摩百货商店空间使用情况的两次公开辩论。在巴尔的摩，非洲裔美国学生在午餐柜台和主要百货商店的餐厅举行静坐抗议，以抗议没有送达的情况。在约翰内斯堡，全国分配工人联合会（NUDW）反对在约翰内斯堡的商店中服务和文书工作中的工作保留，以争取黑人工人获得就业机会。该论文认为，百货公司作为“亲密的公众”，提供了一个网站来比较两个地方的种族，阶级和性别的情感表达，