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... West Coast blues San Francisco urban redevelopment housing activism ...

... in the Mississippi Delta, as this epistemology was crafted and reworked through the landscape and politics of the US West. Housing activists in Hunters Point aimed to produce a more humane sociospatial arrangement in San Francisco. West Coast blues San Francisco urban redevelopment housing activism ...

... Describes the wealthy black woman who lived next door to Mennonite House, and her complicated belief system—she supported integration and civil rights activism, but came from a family that owned slaves themselves, and seemed proud of this as well. Mennonite House wealthy African Americans...

... This chapter focuses on two video installation pieces by the artist and theorist Victor Burgin, The Little House (2005), which explores Rudolph Schindler’s King’s Road House in Los Angeles, and A Place to Read (2010), which includes a digital reconstruction of Sedad Hakkı Eldem’s Taslik...

... and aesthetic. They formed more collective spaces, “Great Houses,” which became community art centers, and actively supported new community-oriented venues that emerged during this time in Venice as well as in South Central Los Angeles. All of this contributed to a continuing and strong community presence...

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...Colonial Kinships<subtitle>Regional Histories, Uncustomary Politics, and the Genealogical Imagination</subtitle> This chapter looks at how multiracial people in Nyasaland (contemporary Malawi) became politically active during the 1920s and 1930s, making demands upon the British colonial state...

... UGMA had been a presence in Watts before the upheaval of 1965, but it now found itself in the middle of one of the most dramatic urban convulsions in American history. In the aftermath of the summer uprising UGMA was at the center of activity on 103rd Street, as Watts became the Association's...

... becoming visible on the social landscape as the search for an improved community life was embraced by many, even as the wave of revolutionary activity was subsiding. Spurred by these developments and an influx of younger recruits espousing many of these ideas, the organization expanded its involvements...

... This chapter uses the institution of replacement (as it plays out in the context of labor pooling and house building) as a lens to examine long-term transformations in social relations brought on by the NGO’s ecotourism project. It analyzes what happens to local values when there are pressures...

... spectrum atypical antipsychotic medications is routine among homeless women. Clinically speaking, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder are difficult conditions to diagnose and treat in the presence of active substance use. Yet the symptoms of these conditions—trauma, despair, rage, and mania...

... of South Africa’s cities, Cape Town among them, the state deployed new development policies, including the provision of housing and basic infrastructure. As a strategy of divide and rule, development both turned those with formal homes against those living in shacks and created internal divisions of gender...

... grandmother was a holistic healer and Rosemarie understands her activism as a form of healing work; she also sees the recounting of ghost stories as a form of energy-transformation that has parallels to the way music transformed the energy of participants in the Southern Freedom Movement. The chapter also...

... negatively). Vincent Harding Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Coretta King Koinonia Clarence Jordan Describes the wealthy black woman who lived next door to Mennonite House, and her complicated belief system—she supported integration and civil rights activism, but came from a family...

... anxieties spawned by overcrowding in slum housing, and the symbolic work queer black residents performed to mark the neighborhood as in decline. He urges historians of black political and sexual subjectivity to embrace the seeming contradictions inherent within black sexual subjectivity as the starting...

... on streaming platforms further—on condition, however, that such decommodification is extended to all necessities of life: housing, healthcare, education, food, as well as music. platform cooperatives music streaming public utilities labor activism music unions ...

... These are notes for a story about a woman who brought captured runaway slaves to her house, tortured them, and then resold them. Years later, after the house is burned down, Grandma Rye comes and puts the tormented spirits there to rest. Bob Moses Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) slavery...

...“Not Today”<subtitle>Geopolitics and Activism</subtitle> This short summary gives an overview of the topics covered in the essays in this section of the book, which grapple with the local, regional, and transnational contexts and power dynamics that BTS and its fandom emerge from...