Blockbusting In Baltimore

Author : W. Edward Orser
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813184050

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Blockbusting in Baltimore by W. Edward Orser Pdf

This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.

Author : Amanda I. Seligman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226746654

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Block by Block by Amanda I. Seligman Pdf

In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in these areas began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. And ultimately, the riots that erupted on Chicago's West Side and across the country in the mid-1960s stemmed not only from the tribulations specific to blacks in urban centers but also from the legacy of accumulated neglect after decades of white occupancy. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the "flight" of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.

Author : Antero Pietila
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1299444172

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Not in My Neighborhood by Antero Pietila Pdf

Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of "white flight" after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila's engrossing story is an eye-opening journey into city blocks and neighborhoods, shady practices, and ruthless promoters. -- Book jacket.

Author : Adam D. Fracchia,Patricia M. Samford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813070445

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Below Baltimore by Adam D. Fracchia,Patricia M. Samford Pdf

The first synthesis of the archaeological heritage of Baltimore Below Baltimore provides the first detailed overview of the rich archaeological heritage of the people and city of Baltimore. Drawing on a combined five decades of experience in the Chesapeake region and compiling 70 years of published and unpublished records, Adam Fracchia and Patricia Samford explore the layers of the city’s material record from the late seventeenth century to the recent past. Fracchia and Samford focus on major themes and movements such as Baltimore’s growth into a mercantile port city, the city’s diverse immigrant populations and the history of their foodways, and the ways industries—including railroads, glass factories, sugar refineries, and breweries—structured the city’s landscape. Using insights from artifacts and the built environment, they detail individual lives and experiences within different historical periods and show how the city has changed over time. Synthesizing a large amount of information that has never before been gathered in one place, Below Baltimore demonstrates how urban archaeology can approach cities as larger collective artifacts of the past, where excavations can uncover patterns of inequality in urbanization and industrialization that connect to social and economic processes still at work today.

Author : Gregory Smithsimon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479845118

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Liberty Road by Gregory Smithsimon Pdf

"Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Randallstown, Maryland, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban Whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs"--

Author : Marion Orr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015053139369

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Black Social Capital by Marion Orr Pdf

Deindustrialization, white flight, and inner city poverty have spelled trouble for Baltimore schools. Marion Orr now examines why school reform has been difficult to achieve there, revealing the struggles of civic leaders and the limitations placed on Baltimore's African-American community as each has tried to rescue a failing school system. Examining the interplay between government and society, Orr presents the first systematic analysis of social capital both within the African-American community ("black social capital") and outside it where social capital crosses racial lines. Orr shows that while black social capital may have created solidarity against white domination in Baltimore, it hampered African-American leaders' capacity to enlist the cooperation from white corporate elites and suburban residents needed for school reform. Orr examines social capital at the neighborhood level, in elite-level interactions, and in intergovernmental relations to argue that black social capital doesn't necessarily translate into the kind of intergroup coalition needed to bring about school reform. He also includes an extensive historical survey of the black community, showing how distrust engendered by past black experiences has hampered the formation of significant intergroup social capital. The book features case studies of school reform activity, including the first analysis of the politics surrounding Baltimore's decision to hire a private, for-profit firm to operate nine of its public schools. These cases illuminate the paradoxical aspects of black social capital in citywide school reform while offering critical perspectives on current debates about privatization, site-based management, and other reform alternatives. Orr's book challenges those who argue that social capital alone can solve fundamentally political problems by purely social means and questions the efficacy of either privatization or black community power to reform urban schools. Black Social Capital offers a cogent conceptual synthesis of social capital theory and urban regime theory that demonstrates the importance of government, politics, and leadership in converting social capital into a resource that can be mobilized for effective social change.

Author : Mary Rizzo
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781421437910

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Come and Be Shocked by Mary Rizzo Pdf

She investigates more mainstream art, from the teen dance sensation The Buddy Deane Show to the comedy-drama Roc to the crime show The Wire, from Anne Tyler's award-winning book The Accidental Tourist to Barry Levinson's movie classic Diner.

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761928843

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Encyclopedia of American Urban History by David Goldfield Pdf

Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.

Author : Peter B. Levy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422406

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The Great Uprising by Peter B. Levy Pdf

Offers a rich description of the impact of the 1960s race riots in the United States whose legacy still haunts the nation.

Author : Kenneth D. Durr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807854336

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Behind the Backlash by Kenneth D. Durr Pdf

In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challengin

Author : Antero Pietila
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781566639002

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Not in My Neighborhood by Antero Pietila Pdf

Author : Interboro Partners,Tobias Armborst,Daniel D’Oca
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781638409625

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The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion by Interboro Partners,Tobias Armborst,Daniel D’Oca Pdf

With contributions from over fifty architects, planners, geographers, historians, and journalists, The Arsenal offers a wide-ranging view of the forces that shape our cities. Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines some of the policies, practices, and physical artifacts that have been used by planners, policymakers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists, and other urban actors in the United States to draw, erase, or redraw the lines that divide. The Arsenal inventories these weapons of exclusion and inclusion, describes how they have been used, and speculates about how they might be deployed (or retired) for the sake of more open cities in which more people have access to more places. With contributions from over fifty architects, planners, geographers, historians, and journalists, The Arsenal offers a wide-ranging view of the forces that shape our cities. With contributions from some of the best minds in architecture, such as Julie Behrens, Bill Bishop, Lisa Brawley, Ava Bromberg, Marshall Brown, Common Room, Charles Connerly, Nathan Connolly, Margaret Crawford, Alexander D'Hooghe, Elizabeth Evitts Dickenson, David Freund, Gerald Frug, Vincent James, Jeffrey Johnson, Michael Kubo, Kaja Kuhl, Matthew Lassiter, Amy Lavine, Setha Low, Thomas Oles, Michael Piper, Wendy Plotkin, Jenny Polak, Albert Pope, Mathan Ratinam, Brian Ripel, James Rojas, Theresa Schwarz, Roger Sherman, Susan Sloan, Lior Strahilevitz, Meredith TenHoor, William TenHoor, Thumb Projects (Graphic Design), Stephen Walker and Jennifer Yoos, among others. This publication won a Graham Foundation Grant

Author : Amy Davis
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781421422190

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Flickering Treasures by Amy Davis Pdf

These vintage and contemporary images of Baltimore movie palaces explore the changing face of Charm City with stories and commentary by filmmakers. Since the dawn of popular cinema, Baltimore has been home to hundreds of movie theaters, many of which became legendary monuments to popular culture. But by 2016, the number of cinemas had dwindled to only three. Many theaters have been boarded up, burned out, or repurposed. In this volume, Baltimore Sun photojournalist Amy Davis pairs vintage black-and-white images of downtown movie palaces and modest neighborhood theaters with her own contemporary color photos. Flickering Treasures delves into Baltimore’s cultural and cinematic history, from its troubling legacy of racial segregation to the technological changes that have shaped both American cities and the movie exhibition business. Images of Electric Park, the Century, the Hippodrome, and scores of other beloved venues are punctuated by stories and interviews, as well as commentary from celebrated Baltimore filmmakers Barry Levinson and John Waters. A map and timeline reveal the one-time presence of movie houses in every corner of the city, and fact boxes include the years of operation, address, architect, and seating capacity for each of the 72 theaters profiled, along with a brief description of each theater’s distinct character.

Author : Anthony Joseph Stanonis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820331690

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Dixie Emporium by Anthony Joseph Stanonis Pdf

The ten essays in this collection focus on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders and identify spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness. Simultaneous.

Author : Kevin Fox Gotham
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791453774

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Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development by Kevin Fox Gotham Pdf

Examines how the real estate industry and federal housing policy facilitate the development of racial residential segregation.