Wide-Open Town

Boyd, Nan Alamilla

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“…Some may argue that the hip-hop movement captures the essence of umoja by mobilizing a generation of youth rather than a cultural group of people. 34 Conversely, others question the implications of current trends within the movement and the possible negative influences for black youth identity, particularly that of black females. Some argue that the United States, though blessed with the richest resources in the world, has a generation that embraces a nihilistic, relativistic mindset and discounts historical occurrences as irrelevant to present-day human interactions.…”

Section: Clash Of Cultures and Value-conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Character Development from African-American Perspectives: Toward a Counternarrative Approach

Gallien¹,

Jackson²

2006

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

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THIS CHAPTER ARGUES that character education, if it is to be effective, must be responsive to the values and narratives of particular cultural groups. It looks in particular at the cultural counternarratives informing traditions of character formation in African-American communities, and argues that these can provide a basis for successful character education. By grounding character education in the history, literature, and cultural and religious values of African-Americans, we are more likely to integrate the psychological, spiritual, and academic development of the next generation of African-American youth.

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Section: Clash Of Cultures and Value-conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Character Development from African-American Perspectives: Toward a Counternarrative Approach

Gallien¹,

Jackson²

2006

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

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“…Studies of American and British "gay male worlds" suggest licensed premises could be key spaces for queer sociability in this period. While a new-and more hostile-attention was paid to New York's gay men after the Repeal of Prohibition, and San Francisco's bars faced hostile policing (Boyd, 2003;Chauncey, 1994), Seattle's gay bars were "governed heteronormatively but … indirectly and with a relatively soft touch" by the Liquor Control Board (Brown & Knopp, 2016, p. 337). London's pubs were no more important than other third places in this period (Houlbrook, 2005), however.…”

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confidence: 99%

Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950

Kneale

2021

Geography Compass

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This paper surveys historical geographies of drinking places designed for the consumption of alcohol between about 1850 and 1950, covering work published in English on sites in Europe, Russia, the Americas, and parts of Britain's empire. Five key aspects of drinking places are identified. The paper first considers them as significant social spaces associated with positive conceptions of both the public sphere and public space before exploring the ways in which drink became a spatial problem for contemporary observers, both in terms of their internal design and layout, and in their arrangements and concentrations in space. Histories and historical geographies of workers and patrons in these sites then suggest that the spatial problems associated with drink might also be classed, gendered, racialized, and sexualized. The last two sections of the paper review work on aspects of drinking places shared across many different social and geographical contexts: licensing and the provision of highly regulated 'improved' sites for the consumption of alcohol. Similarities across many different contexts may reflect common social patterns or the development of shared strategies for reform. The conclusion suggests a few areas that might be developed. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…It is manifest in numerous historical monographs about particular cases of LGBTQ+ activism (e.g. Atkins, 2003;Beachy, 2014;Boyd, 2003;Chauncey 1994;Faderman and Timmons, 2009;Houlbrook, 2005;Stewart-Winter, 2016) as well as in more social scientific attempts to make sense of sexual politics and the politics of sexuality. George Chauncey's (1994) famous account of the emergence of a gay subculture in early 20th-century New York, for instance, demonstrated the importance of certain features of urban life to the formation of gay male as well as lesbian identities and communities in that city.…”

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Travel guides, urban spatial imaginaries and LGBTQ+ activism: The case of Damron guides

Knopp

Brown

2020

Urban Studies

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In this paper we focus on LGBTQ+ travel guides and the creation of a North American LGBTQ+ urban imaginary as forms and facilitators of activism. Specifically, we consider one of the few continuously published sources detailing such an imaginary in the mid-20th century and its construction of an ‘epistemological grid’ onto which entries were placed. We briefly situate the guides in the context of an emerging (and frequently politicised) mid-20th-century LGBTQ+ media ecosystem, then proceed to a detailed analysis of the imaginary they evoke. Cities are the guides’ assumed building-blocks, along with certain other ontologies, most notably bars, sex establishments and other meeting places (though these change over time). As aggregators of information at a national scale, the guides standardised and communicated particular notions of what LGBTQ+ space was (and is). At the same time, as way-finding tools they helped readers navigate actual communities at the local scale. In so doing, we argue, Damron guides helped shape early forms of LGBTQ+ identity and community in North America – including the establishment of ‘gaybourhoods’. We therefore interpret the guides as both activist and facilitators of activism. They claimed space at an abstract level while simultaneously facilitating place-making, territorialisation and simple survival strategies by actual people on the ground. Our analysis contributes to understandings of the relationship, over time and at multiple scales, between travel guides, an urban-based North American spatial imaginary and LGBTQ+ activism. It also highlights Damron guides’ potential as a rich source of data.

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Wide-Open Town

Cited by 199 publications

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Character Development from African-American Perspectives: Toward a Counternarrative Approach

Character Development from African-American Perspectives: Toward a Counternarrative Approach

Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950

Travel guides, urban spatial imaginaries and LGBTQ+ activism: The case of Damron guides

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