This is the second entry in our Metropolis of the Month for November 2023, Washington D.C. By Kyla Sommers In response to the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, African Americans took to the streets in more than one hundred American cities. The rebellions in Washington, DC, resulted in…

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16.11.2023

Hope and Community in the Capital: Salvadorans in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area – The Metropole

This is the third entry for our November 2023 Metropolis of the Month, Washington, DC. By Edwin A. Rodriguez In an interview with news media outlet Bloomberg, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson reflected on his book Green Earth (2015), inspired by his time living in Washington, DC. He noted that when he lived in…

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21.11.2023

“Who’s Going to Own Adams Morgan?” The Battle Against “Reverse Blockbusting” in 1970s Washington, DC – The Metropole

This is the fourth entry in our Metropolis of the Month for November 2023, Washington, DC. By Timothy Kumfer Standing on the sidewalk with a loudspeaker, Walter Pierce addressed the crowd assembled on the 1700 block of Willard Street, NW. “We’re here today to make clear to the rest of the real estate vultures and…

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01.12.2023

Local Logics and Urban Exorcisms for Better Neighborhoods—A Review of “Urban Specters: The Everyday Harm of Racial Capitalism” – The Metropole

Mayorga, Sarah. Urban Specters: The Everyday Harm of Racial Capitalism. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Reviewed by Minh Q. Nguyen Sarah Mayorga’s Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism provides an in-depth analysis of material life within two neighborhoods in Cincinnati, a Midwestern Rust Belt city, from the perspective of…

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The Travails of Urban Redevelopment in post-1968 Washington, DC – The Metropole

Hope and Community in the Capital: Salvadorans in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area – The Metropole

“Who’s Going to Own Adams Morgan?” The Battle Against “Reverse Blockbusting” in 1970s Washington, DC – The Metropole

Local Logics and Urban Exorcisms for Better Neighborhoods—A Review of “Urban Specters: The Everyday Harm of Racial Capitalism” – The Metropole

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