Sean M. Gregory

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line.

American Ethnologist · 2003-05-01 · 102 citations

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line. Paul Gilray. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 406 pp., bibliography, index.

The Radiant University: Space, Urban Redevelopment, and the Public Good

City & Society · 2013-04-01 · 18 citations

Abstract In 2003, Columbia University announced its plan to expand its Morningside Heights into a 17‐acre area of West H arlem known as Manhattanville. The University's expansion plan called for the acquisition and demolition of all but three buildings in the project's footprint and the construction of a state of the art campus over a roughly 30‐year period. This article examines the discourses, debates and politics surrounding the project and, in particular, the University's demand for exclusiv…

Making the “American Acropolis”: On Verticality, Social Hierarchy, and the Obduracy of Manhattan Schist

Annals of the American Association of Geographers · 2019-07-31 · 5 citations

This article examines the development of the American Acropolis, a constellation of religious, cultural, and educational institutions in Morningside Heights, New York City. I argue that, beginning in the 1880s, the elites governing these institutions took advantage of geography—specifically, the area’s elevation as a plateau—and their control over the built environment to achieve vertical secession, physically and symbolically, from nearby working-class communities and their associated industrie…

Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐19

American Ethnologist · 2022-04-26 · 4 citations

ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic has fundamentally altered our associational life and relationship to public space, revealing deadly inequities in access to health care and other resources, particularly in communities of color. In Harlem and other areas of New York City that are experiencing neoliberal redevelopment, the response to the pandemic has also rearticulated public spaces, introducing new and diverse spatial uses and users, and providing low‐income and working‐class African American and…

The two 'editions' of Duméril's Zoologie analytique, and the potential confusion caused by Froriep's translation Analytische Zoologie.

2010-01-01 · 4 citations

an 1805 date is confirmed for the '1806' original French work 1 ; the translated German edition appeared about a year later and should not be cited as the source of new names. A slightly corrected French edition appeared in 1806.