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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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
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