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“Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: Vendors and the Negotiation of Policing in Mexico City, from the Late Nineteenth Century Through the 1930s Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Keegan Boyar
This article investigates how vendors and police in Mexico City negotiated police power, especially over discretionary regulatory enforcement, during a period of significant urbanization. Using criminal court records alongside other sources, this paper reconstructs changing patterns of relations between a wide range of vendors and police in Mexico City, finding that social relationships between the
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From Prepandemic to Postpandemic Suburban Heavens of Privilege Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Katrin B. Anacker
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London Bridge: A History of Urban Survival Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Douglas Munro, Randolf Cooper
United Kingdom artifacts have long held fascination in other parts of the world. However, none as large as the London Bridge have managed to evolve, transform, and survive for 2,000 years. The 1831 version of the bridge was purchased in 1968 and moved to the desert of Arizona in the United States where it serves as a major tourist attraction. How that came to occur is only the end story of how a bridge
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Five Urban Geographies of History, Heritage, Monuments, and Modernity Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Joshua Hagen
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Close to Home: Suburbanization, Residential Segregation, and Jewish-Black Relations in St. Louis Park and North Minneapolis, MN Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Russell Jacob Star-Lack
This study examines the suburbanization of Minneapolis’ Jewish community during the postwar period, focusing on the ethnic enclave of North Minneapolis and the Jewish ethnoburb of St. Louis Park. It argues that as part of this process, Jewish leaders adopted a strategy of self-discipline, in which they would go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that instances of Jewish racism and other actions that
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Trumbull Talk: White Vernacular and the Politics of Persecution, 1953-1954 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Erica Gilbert-Levin
Following in the microhistory tradition, this essay draws on an unpublished report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to delve deeply into the political worldviews of working-class white mill workers in 1950s South Deering, Chicago, during their massive resistance to the racial integration of a local public housing project in the post-World War II period. A close analysis of casual conversations
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Tree Times: Urban Plants as Timekeepers and Seasonal Indicators Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Sonja Dümpelmann
As living beings that change with the seasons, urban trees both indicate and structure time in the city. They do so through their own agency and life cycles and through the care and management they require in urban environments where they often stand in conflict with other land uses. In temperate zones, urban trees have been planted for centuries especially to provide cooling shade in hot summers.
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The City Is for Intimacy: Narrative and Connection in Intimate Urban Histories of the USA Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Peter Sebastian Chesney
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Cars, Gardens, and Ruins: Making and Remaking the Motor City Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Kenneth S. Alyass
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Architecture, Planning, and Policy Around Two Spanish Trips to the Soviet Union: I Réunions Internationales des Architectes (1932) and V International Union of Architects Congress (1958) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 María Cristina García-González, Salvador Guerrero
The aim of this article is to explore the diffusion of the USSR housing, planning, and architecture related to Spain in the transnational networks through the development of two international congress. The French magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui organized a trip to the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1932. The aims were to stage the I Réunions Internationales d’Architectes (RIA) and to discover the
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Whose Streets? Our Streets! . . . or Maybe Not? Legitimizing Racialized Gendered Policing in Modern Cities Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Rhonda Y. Williams
“Whose streets? Our streets!” This special forum centered on The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification conjures this popular urban protest chant that may (or may not) be familiar to many readers. While the response—“our streets!”—is forceful, it is far from a clear-cut truism or uncomplicated declaration. Herein, Fischer and five interlocutors discuss
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Making the City: The Contested Shaping of Urban Life through Transit Investments Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yonah Freemark
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From Police Power to Police Practice Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DeAnza A. Cook
Understanding the everyday manifestations of systemic racism, cisheteropatriarchy, and unequal justice for oppressed women and femmes necessitates meaningful engagement with critical law enforcement studies—the study of why and how policing and punishment takes place in carceral societies. Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us spells out why sexual policing matters for the history of political
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Walk on By: How We Know an Era Is Over Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Wesley Hogan
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The Sex Wars: Prostitution, Carceral Feminists, and the Consolidation of Police Power Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jessica R. Pliley
Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us makes an important contribution to the growing historiography of post-1970’s feminism in the United States. Her final chapter deftly explores the rise of what she calls “dominance feminists” who allied with police departments in their campaigns against commercial sex. However, this alliance overlooked the realities of on-the-ground policing and exacerbated
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Gendered Anti-Blackness: Policing Black Women and the Making of the Modern City Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Keona K. Ervin
The Streets Belong to Us makes a significant contribution to multiple fields, most principally the history of race, gender, sexuality, incarceration, and state violence in the United States. It is a definitive history of the changing nature of police power, and the ways that it defined, defended, and enforced the logics that undergirded racial segregation.Illuminating the significant degree to which
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Protection for Whom? Police Legitimacy and the Historical Origins of Carceral Feminism Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Charlotte E. Rosen
In a reflection on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us, this article considers how her scholarship on sexual policing in 20th century America situates sexual policing and the state’s criminalization of women as central rather than supplemental to our broader understanding of policing. Fischer’s analysis demonstrates how police used sexual policing to bolster their authority amid threats to
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Built on Women’s Bodies: An Author’s Response Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Anne Gray Fischer
Across the twentieth century, police were the enforcers of public space, determining which women would be targeted as problems to solve. Sexual policing—the targeting and legal control of people’s bodies and their presumed sexual activities—was considered a marginal and degraded use of public resources, maligned by officers and residents alike. And yet, amid the recurring crises of legitimacy for police
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Archives in Stone: Cemeteries, Burial, and Urban Ownership in Late Colonial Ghana Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Sarah Balakrishnan
While many scholars have examined the influence of European law, writing, and record-keeping on African land rights and property, few have analyzed semi-textual records such as cemetery gravestones. This essay argues that urban cemeteries, introduced by the British colonial state to the Gold Coast Colony (southern Ghana) in the nineteenth century, became archives in stone. As one of the few public
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Back to the Sea Clifford Holliday and the Building of the Government Estate and Kingsway Boulevard in British Mandatory Haifa Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Daphna Half, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
In 1923, at the onset of the British Mandate for Palestine, the British launched their largest infrastructural project in the Middle East, a modern harbor in Haifa, which turned the coastal city into their stronghold on the Eastern Mediterranean. This engineering feat was the product of an avaricious instrumental, technocratic appetite, which ignored the existing town. We argue, drawing on previously
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Sounding Sidewalks: Historicizing and Theorizing This Medial Zone Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Lauren Knight
Sidewalks have long been a contested urban space existing between the private and public, thereby embodying conflicting sonic worlds of personal soundscaping, cultural world-building, and authority. This article theorizes and historicizes the lineage of the sidewalk as a medium of both control and resistance, addressed through an analysis of various sound technologies and techniques. Extending literature
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British Allotment to American Park: An Atlantic Crossing of the Garden Suburb Movement 1910–1930 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Robert Freestone, David Nichols
Endorsement of open spaces internalized within residential blocks was an iconic concept promoted by the British garden city movement in the early twentieth century. Advancing various social goals, they were associated within a gendered ideology of domesticity, child safety, local food production, and community-centeredness. This article examines American responses through theoretical reformulation
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Late-Soviet Collective Housing: Self-Help Construction and Self-Management in Youth Residential Complex Housing Movement Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nikolay Erofeev
In the Soviet era, a long-lasting idea of collective housing was implemented in various forms, most notably, constructivist “house-communes” (doma-kommuny) of the 1920s. This article considers less-known realization of collective housing in late-Soviet Russia, by focusing on the project of “Youth Residential Complex” (MZhK). Starting in 1968, this project was declared as an experiment, in which residents
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Mediating Planning Discourses: Medium, Interface, and Fusion Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Richard Hu
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Urban History on the Seam: Frankfurt’s Judengasse and the Early Modern City Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Debra Kaplan
This article examines the nexus between the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt am Main (built in 1462) and a neighboring street, Wollgraben. Utilizing Jewish communal sources in Hebrew and Yiddish, German municipal records, and contemporary maps, it traces the development of the ghetto against the backdrop of urban expansion and population growth. Although the Jews were technically confined to the ghetto,
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The Politics of Blight: Recent Literature on Urban Renewal Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jonathan Marty
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Crisis and Faith: Urban Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Suzanna Krivulskaya
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Pictured, Processed, Remembered: Berlin 1944-2019 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Miriam Paeslack
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A Room in the Film Capital: The Social Economy of Lodging and Urban Change in Hollywood during the 1930s Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Frederick Bode
In Central Hollywood, during the 1930s, population became denser, housing values declined, and rooming houses increasingly defined much of the neighborhood. The lodging population was mostly white and native-born (but with significant Asian minorities), young, transient, and maritally unattached. They constituted a working class that was often precariously employed in the entertainment industry, the
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Call to Piety: The Role of Adhan in the Shaping Rumi Identity and Governmental Authority Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Hasan Baran Fırat
This study aims to reveal the intricacies of individual acoustic communication systems that have operated in Istanbul for years, with a focus on the Muslim call to prayer, adhan. Being the bearers of society’s religious, cultural, and social values, the religious signals have always been more than mere sounds and have been held in high regard for centuries. The power they embodied made them an essential
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The Urban Question in the Age of Innocence and Convergence Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Clovis Ultramari, Rodrigo José Firmino, Ariadne dos Santos Daher
This is a discussion of how the “urban question” became a topic of general interest in the media, based on a bibliometric analysis of newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, targeting a specific process of urbanization in the United States, hinting at how the public perception of urban studies came to attract different fields of research and how new responsibilities
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Historical Evolution of Trade Fairs against Urban Evolution: Divergence and Convergence of Thessaloniki Fair with International Practice Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Dimitris Kourkouridis, Ioannis Frangopoulos, Nikolaos Kapitsinis
This paper conceptualizes trade fairs as complex socio-spatial phenomena, which are constantly transformed, following socio-economic change, and reflect aspects of social and urban life. Methodologically, we apply a longitudinal systematic comparative analysis of historical fair evolution between international practice and the case of the city of Thessaloniki, exploring convergence and divergence,
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Referentiality of Generic Structures: Critique of Capitalist Urban Development in Works of Ludwig Hilberseimer, Archizoom, and Dogma Studio Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Tijana Mačkić, Pavle Stamenović
This article is based on the analysis of the referential relationship within three concepts for the development of the urban matrix: High-rise City by Ludwig Hilberseimer (1924), No-Stop City by studio Archizoom Associati (1969), and Stop City by architectural office DOGMA (2007). The three projects represent a critique of the growth and development of the city within the economic system and the sociocultural
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Refugee Placemaking and Community in San Francisco: Building a Little Saigon Community in San Francisco, from the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Archives (1980-2000) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Minh Q. Nguyen
The article draws from Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) archival materials, housed in the San Francisco History Center, to present a case study of how post-1975 Vietnam War refugees (from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) and a collection of actors collectively affected the local space (1980-2000). This article (1) examines the discourse of “neighborhood stabilization” amidst housing
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“The Cité Is Yours”: Colonial Modernization and Dakar’s Postcolonial Suburban Dream Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Gregory Valdespino
This article explains the postcolonial endurance of colonial modernization plans by examining the history and memory of Dakar’s postwar SICAP suburbs. In 1950, Senegal’s French colonial regime made the Société Immobilière du Cap-Vert (SICAP) which built thousands of homes on the edges of Dakar, primarily for African salaried workers. French leaders claimed SICAP houses would help “modernize” the city
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The Colonial City: Empire, Authenticity, and Urban Imagination at the 1906 Marseille Colonial Exposition Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Katherine Taylor Smith
This article examines the significance of the 1906 French Colonial Exposition in Marseille by situating it in its local, urban context. Rather than promoting solely national or imperial interests, local Marseille elites such as Jules Charles-Roux and Edouard Heckel sought to use the Colonial Exposition to demonstrate the central role played by their city in French trade and industry. To assert Marseille’s
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Dynamic Urban Thresholds: Relationships between Form and Activities in Porta Ticinese, Milano Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Álvaro Clua Uceda
The article approaches the dynamic condition of the urban form and activities of the so-called “urban thresholds,” spaces located in between different city fabrics. The study is based on a comparative analysis of seven maps representing key historical moments of Porta Ticinese’s area in Milano from 1807 to 2022, produced through geographical information system-based reconstruction techniques of original
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How “Neighborhood” Arose, Changed, and Grew: A Bilingual Canadian Story Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Richard Harris
“Neighborhood” is routinely used when referring to the history of residential areas in North American cities. In fact, it is unclear whether this has always been the preferred term, and how its mea...
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Fractures within Fair Housing: The Battle for the Memory and Legacy of the Long Fair Housing Movement Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Nichole Nelson
This article examines how white supremacy diluted the nationwide struggle to eliminate racial residential segregation known as the Fair Housing Movement. As the sole civil rights organization dedic...
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Fragmented Emergency: Sirens, Cellphones, and Sonic Spatialization in Israel Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Dotan Halevy
Israel’s civil defense apparatus relies upon a technologically advanced alarm system. Once a rocket is detected, a cellphone app alerts the residents of the targeted area, and only the sirens locat...
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The Geography of Surveillance: Spatial and Temporal Patterning of Police Surveillance Following Arrest in the First Years of the Special Tribunal in Fascist Italy, 1925-1928 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Antonio Barocci
Between 1925 and 1928, a fundamental strategy of the Italian fascist regime was the imposition of a political court, the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State [Tribunale Speciale per la Dif...
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The Housing Project of Well Hall Garden Suburb and the Production of Spaces in First World War Britain Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Assaf Mond Havardi
“Mother went in to work tonight, how I hate her on Sunday work!,” wrote fourteen years old Kathleen Biddlecombe in her diary, on Sunday, January 13, 1918. Kathleen and her family lived on 6 Cobbett...
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Imagining Residential Segregation before the Ghetto: Representations of Black Urban Space and Mobility in the “Darktown” Comics, 1877-1900 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Colin L. Anderson
Examining Currier and Ives’s immensely popular and racist lithographic print series, the “Darktown” comics, from 1877 to 1900, this article argues that the prints represented homogeneous black urba...
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“We Are without God Now”: Benign Neglect and Planned Destruction of Brooklyn’s Bushwick Neighborhood Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Mario Hernandez
Focusing on the neighborhood of Bushwick from the post–World War II (WWII) era to the onset of the neighborhood’s gentrification, this paper traces the fundamental significance of race in the polic...
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Growing Up Together: Brooklyn’s Truant School and the Carceral and Educational State, 1857-1924 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Judith Kafka
This article uses the history of Brooklyn’s Truant School from its inception in 1857 to its demise in 1924 to highlight the interconnected rationales for public education and juvenile incarceration...
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The Precinct of the Dead and Saints for the Nation: The Bolivian National Revolution and Gualberto Villarroel, 1943-1956 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Luis M. Sierra
This article focuses on Major Gualberto Villarroel’s dictatorship in Bolivia (1943-1946), his murder, and the reanimation of his memory as a Bolivian national hero by the MNR party or Movimiento Na...
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Where Protection Meets Punishment: Public Education and the Carceral State in Urban America Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Walter C. Stern
This essay calls upon scholars in the largely siloed fields of history of education and carceral studies to examine the history of American education and criminal legal systems in tandem rather tha...
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Disciplining Our Own: Politicizing the Image of the Strict Black Principals, 1970-1985 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Mahasan Offutt-Chaney
Between the 1970s and 1980s, a bipartisan group of philanthropists, educational researchers, and eventually the Ronald Reagan administration politicized the image of the strict school disciplinaria...
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“The Police State in Franklin K. Lane”: Desegregation, Student Resistance, and the Carceral Turn at a New York City High School Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Noah Remnick
This essay seeks to understand the origins, development, and consequences of school policing and student discipline at Franklin K. Lane High School in New York City. During the fevered years of the...
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From Segregation to Suspension: The Solidification of the Contemporary School-Prison Nexus in Boston, 1963-1985 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Matthew B. Kautz
Current scholarship emphasizes the adoption of “zero-tolerance” policies as the cause of the punitive turn in school discipline. The focus on “zero tolerance,” however, has obscured how and for wha...
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“Stop Talking and Act”: The Battle between Tough on Crime Policing and Guardianship of Black Juvenile Gangs in Philadelphia, 1958-1969 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Menika Dirkson
The 1958 robbery and murder of international student, In-Ho Oh, by eleven black teenagers in West Philadelphia created public outcry on the issue of black gangs in desegregating neighborhoods. The ...
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Mapping the Contours of Black Juvenile Delinquency: The Journal of Negro Education, 1945-1975 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Deirdre Mayer Dougherty
This essay draws on media studies methodologies to map the ways in which the Journal of Negro Education (JNE) defined juvenile delinquency both as a legal and social construct and how its contribut...
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Arresting the Demand for Drugs: DARE and the School–Police Nexus in Los Angeles Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Max Felker-Kantor
The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program simultaneously changed both the police and schools through the development of what this article calls a school–police nexus, a framing that explai...
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“If you want police, we will have them”: Anti-Black Student Discipline in Southern Schools and the Rise of a New Carceral Logic, 1961-1975 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Jon N. Hale, Candace Livingston
This paper examines the southern influence and litigation around carceral logic in public education, as evident in the racialized disciplinary codes and police presence in schools that led to the c...
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“You Know It When You See It”: Drug Nuisance Property and the Carceral Management of Racialized Disinvestment in Philadelphia Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Jackson Smith
In 1991, Philadelphia prosecutors formed the Public Nuisance Task Force (PNTF) to close bars they accused of harboring narcotics activity. Between the early 1990s and the late 2010s, the PNTF would...
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Separating the Men from the Boys: The John Worthy School (1891-1916) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Susan M. Garneau
The John Worthy School (JWS) was created at the turn of the twentieth century to house younger male misdemeanants within Chicago’s House of Correction separately from older offenders. The JWS refle...
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Stigmatizing Street Vendors and Market Traders: The Case of Amsterdam from a Historical Perspective Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Emil van Eck, Jan Rath
This article contributes to the debate on the stigmatization of street vendors and market traders by illuminating the moralizing and disciplinary state interventions that city officials used in Ams...
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A Big League Minneapolis or a Cold Omaha: Professional Sports and the Promise of Downtown Growth in the Campaign to Build the Metrodome Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Brian Tochterman
Since the 1990s, cities and professional sports franchises have engaged in a frenzied competition to maintain or lure teams, build modern amenity-laden venues, and revitalize underdeveloped or unde...
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Business as Usual: Ethnic Commerce and the Making of a Mexican American Middle Class in Southeast Los Angeles, 1981-1995 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 G. Aron Ramirez
This article examines the entrepreneurial and consumptive habits of Mexican Americans in Downey, California, during the 1980s and 1990s. It shows how Mexican Americans avoided ethnic entrepreneursh...
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Slums, Villas Miseria, and Barriadas: Why Terms Matter Journal of Urban History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Adriana Laura Massidda
Building upon previous debates surrounding the English-language term slum, this article argues that slum stigmatizes the spaces and subjects that it refers to not only because it evokes nineteenth-...