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 Latinx residents with increased opportunities to contest their exclusion from public and quasi‐public spaces and the symbolic economy of gentrification. Based on ethnographic research conducted during the pandemic, I show how black and brown residents in West Harlem encountered, negotiated, and contested these race‐cum‐class–based, spatio‐symbolic exclusions through infrapolitical practices and, in the process, demanded and exercised their “right to the city.” [ race , infrapolitics , public space , gentrification , redevelopment , right to the city , COVID‐19 , Harlem , New York City ]

5. Race, Identity, and the Body Politic

2019-05-07

3. Structures of the Imagination

2019-05-07 · 2 citations

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 industries. Over the longue durée, these elites viewed social secession to be conducive to, if not the necessary condition for, cultivating the arts of civilization. I examine the ensuing politics of verticality that accompanied this secession, pitting the institutions of the Acropolis against sectors of the real estate industry, railroad companies, and the ethnically and racially marked populations of neighboring working-class communities. Key Words: American Acropolis, materiality, Morningside Heights, politics of verticality, social hierarchy, social secession.

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 exclusive control of the site and ultimate pursuit of eminent domain. To that end, university officials claimed that the expansion would bolster the city's knowledge based economy and, as a consequence, serve the “public good”—a requirement for the exercise of eminent domain. By contrast, critics of the project argued for a mixed‐use redevelopment plan that would include affordable housing and other community‐defined amenities.

The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo. by <i>Lauren Derby.</i>

American Ethnologist · 2012-05-01

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.

Reflections on <i>The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic</i>

City & Society · 2008-12-01

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.