Riot and Respectability: The Shifting Terrain of Class Language and Status in Baltimore during the Great Strike of 1877

Luskey, Brian P.

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“…Commemorative plaques around the park note the site where Babe Ruth briefly lived and point to the Oriole's past glories, 53 while no mention is made of the slave quarters that stood under first base or the 10 men killed on the site by the Maryland militia during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. 54 Rather than an attempt to turn back to history in order to redeem suffering or recapture lost histories, this historical montage is, as one writer put it, 'the attack of the present on the rest of time'. 55 In annihilating the traces of past injustices, this method of joining past and present denies the disquieting, silencing the appeals of those that suffered.…”

Section: History Without Guiltmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building between past and future

Ingram

2014

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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To balance radical changes in the built environment that accompany urban renewal, many cities deploy historical design elements to provoke a sense of physical and temporal continuity. By examining the theory and practice of nostalgia in renewal projects, I argue that this strategic deployment of historical signifiers is more complex and normatively problematic than it first appears. Analysing the design and construction of Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards through Walter Benjamin's theories of cultural production and historical succession, I show the problematic political effect of such image-led regeneration projects. The stadium exemplifies a system of urban and historical design and construction that uses material artifice to make totalizing political claims, deploying specific historical signifiers as a means to silence others. Drawing from Benjamin's materialist historiography, I conclude with a survey of the resources that remain for the practice of an architecture of memory in light of my critique.

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Section: History Without Guiltmentioning

confidence: 99%