Baltimore Revisited : : Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City / / ed. by P. Nicole King, Kate Drabinski, Joshua Clark Davis.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Why Revisit Baltimore Now?
  • Part I. Place and Power: Roots of (In)Justice in the City
  • 1. The City That Eats: Food and Power in Baltimore’s Early Public Markets
  • 2. “Shove Those Black Clouds Away!”: Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow Neighborhoods in Baltimore before Brown
  • 3. “The Pot”: Criminalizing Black Neighborhoods in Jim Crow Baltimore
  • 4. Vacant Houses and Inequality in Baltimore from the Nineteenth Century to Today
  • 5. A Psychology of Place: Race, Violence, and Community in Baltimore
  • 6. Community Health and Baltimore Apartheid: Revisiting Development, Inequality, and Tax Policy
  • Part II. Histories of Contestation and Activism in a Legacy City
  • 7. The Riot Environment: Sanitation, Recreation, and Pacification in the Wake of Baltimore’s 1968 Uprising
  • 8. “The People’s Side of the Road”: Movement against Destruction and Organizing across Lines of Race, Class, and Neighborhood
  • 9. More Than a Store: Activist Businesses in Baltimore
  • 10. “Welfare Isn’t a Single Issue”: Baltimore’s Welfare Rights Movement, 1960s–1980s
  • 11. The Last Censors: The Life and Slow Death of Maryland’s Board of Motion Picture Censors, 1916–1981
  • 12. “Temple of the Drama” The Five-Year Protest at Ford’s Theater, 1947–1952
  • Part III. Voices from Here: Listening to the Past
  • 13. “Because They Were Also Downed People”: Black-Jewish Relationships in Baltimore during the 1968 Uprising and Beyond
  • 14. (snapshot) Korean Communities in Baltimore
  • 15. The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore’s Fells Point
  • 16. Overburdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore
  • 17. Finding Closure: The Poets of the Sparrows Point Steel Mill
  • 18. Baltimore’s Socialist Feminists—Lessons from Then, Lessons for Now: Community Empowerment and Urban Collectives in the 1970s
  • 19. Relentlessly Gay: A Conversation on LGBTQ Stories in Baltimore
  • Part IV. Surviving in the Neoliberal City: Redevelopment in Baltimore
  • 20. Johns Hopkins University and the History of Developing East Baltimore
  • 21. Image and Infrastructure: Making Baltimore a Tourist City
  • 22. Skywalk: The Life and Death of Multilevel Urbanism in Downtown Baltimore
  • 23. Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore, Sharp Leadenhall
  • 24. The Superblock: A Downtown Development Debacle, 2003–2015
  • 25. Under Armour’s Global Headquarters and the Redevelopment of South Baltimore
  • Part V. Democratizing the Archives
  • 26. Social History in the Archives: Baltimore’s Enduring Legacy
  • 27. Building a More Inclusive History of Baltimore: Preserving the Baltimore Uprising
  • Afterword: Weaving Knowledges
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index