"The 'Browncoats' are Coming": Latino Public History in Boston

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Féélix V. Matos Rodrííguez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public History ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
National Leader ◽  
City State ◽  
National Trends ◽  
The City ◽  
The U.S

This essay will attempt to explain why it has taken so long for the city/state and public history organizations in Boston to begin to embrace the heritage of its Latino/a communities in public history projects. It will contextualize early attempts in the 1970s and 1980s to develop and promote Latino/a public history projects and exhibits and will discuss changes that have occurred in the 1990s. The second part of the essay will discuss how issues of representation, power, and participation have been addressed by two recent projects that have attempted to incorporate Latino/a history in Boston. The city of Boston has been selected as a case-study for a number of reasons. First, Boston is one of a few cities in the U.S. where public history projects have national repercussions. The combination of a high concentration of institutions of higher education, and the city's attractiveness to visitors fascinated by the U.S. colonial, maritime and independence history makes Boston a national leader in the field of public history. Second, the situation in Boston -- where increased hostility towards immigrants, affirmative action, and bilingualism - is representative of recent trends in urban centers throughout the U.S and allows for important comparisons. Finally, the selection of Boston is significant because it breaks from traditional studies that limit Latino/a history issues to cities that have a larger percentage of Latinos/as in its population such as Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York. Within the small field of Latino/a public history including case studies of cities such as Boston is crucial because Boston is probably more representative of national trends than are the large cities mentioned earlier.

Artere urbane: tre diversi esperimenti nelle cittŕ americane

STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 69-92
Author(s):  
Joseph F.C. DiMento
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City

- This essay examines the decision-making process that led to the building of the freeways and highways that cross metropolitan areas in the USA, focusing on the cases of Syracuse, New York; Memphis, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, California. There are many decisions concerning transportation that affect urban areas, but the most import of them have to do with state highways and interstates. This essay focuses on the phases and the events that led to the cities' decisions on the highways that cross urban centers. These decisions were laden with serious consequences on the formation, growth, and decline of various models of urban development. The sources of information consist mainly of interviews and investigations, archival records and statistics. The cases examined lead us to believe that the fate of cities in this area mostly depen- ded on powers beyond their control tied in with transportation. In any case, the decisions in each case are not analogous to those of other cases. The outcomes in each city depended on phenomena that interact with each other and depend on particular moments in history and on changeable factors, such as the chance to obtain federal and state funding, the set up of the environmental laws, and the specific philosophies of governmental administrations on fiscal questions and on how to maintain the city centers vital.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Glick
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public History ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Bunker Hill ◽  
The City

Beginning in the late 1950s, a combination of political and cultural forces made Los Angeles a national center for documentary media. The early filmmaking of Erik Daarstad in both Hollywood and Bunker Hill demonstrates the close relationship between documentaries produced under different circumstances and with conflicting ideological motivations. This introduction maps the different institutions involved in documentary production in the city and investigates the rise of the documentary as a contentious form of public history. Brief summaries of this book’s seven chapters outline the trajectory of liberal and more radical film practices between 1958 and 1977.

Horton, Lester (1906–1953)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Dinerman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
York City ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Theater Production ◽  
American Modern Dance ◽  
The U.S

Lester Horton, regarded as one of the founders of American modern dance, worked outside the established center of New York City, establishing a permanent dance theater in Los Angeles in 1946. The Lester Horton Dance Theater was a multidisciplinary arts school for children and adults, offering training in all aspects of theater production; both the school and company were multiracial, a rarity at that time. Horton’s broad choreographic range allowed him to work in films, nightclubs, and on the concert stage. His fascination with folklore, cultural history, and ethnic dance informed his diverse body of work, with themes ranging from the classics to melodrama, social commentary to satire. Working with his dancers, most notably Bella Lewitzky, he developed the Horton technique over two decades of classroom work, which is still taught today in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to Lewitzky, Horton’s influence continued through the careers of Alvin Ailey, Janet Collins, Carmen de Lavallade, James Mitchell, Joyce Trisler, and James Truitte.

The City in Film

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Romantic Comedy ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
German Expressionism ◽  
Cinematic Space ◽  
The City

Cinema and the city are historically interrelated. The rise of cinema followed on the heels of urbanization and industrialization, and early cinema production and exhibition was largely urban. Moreover, the city has proved to be a rich and diverse cinematic setting and subject. Early cinema recorded scenes of urban life in actuality, melodrama, and City Symphonies. Gangster films, German expressionism, and Film Noir rendered an urban underworld; the musical and romantic comedy produced a more utopian view of the city; and art cinema rendered the everyday reality of urban life. Recent films imagine dystopic post-urban settings and, alternately, megacities populated by superheroes. The relationship between the cinema and the city can be examined in numerous ways. In part, cinema provides an urban archive or memory bank that reflects changes in the urban landscape. At the same time, cinema serves to produce the city, both literally—in the way that film production shapes Los Angeles, Mumbai, Rome, Hong Kong, and other centers of production—and also by producing an imaginary urbanism through the construction of both fantasy urban spaces and ideas and ideals of the city. Theorists suggest that there is an inherent urbanism to cinema. Kracauer 1997 (cited under General Overviews) claims the city, and especially the street, as exemplary and essential cinematic space, attuned to the experience of contingency, flow, and indeterminacy linked to modernity. Hansen 1999 (also cited under General Overviews) suggests that cinema worked as a kind of vernacular modernism to articulate and mediate the experience of modernity—and especially urbanization. More recently, attention to theories of space and urbanism across the academy have generated broad interest in cinematic urbanism. Much of this work brings film scholars into conversation with urban planners, geographers, and architects. Of course neither cinema nor the city is singular. Thus work on the city and film must attend to multiple global cities at different historical periods and, furthermore, consider that cinema produces multiple versions of even a single city, such as New York, as different narratives, genres, studios, directors, and individual films will each produce a different city. Some books and articles tangentially examine films set in cities. This article will include only those texts that have the urban sphere as a primary focus of their investigation.

Black Americans and the State in Turn-of-the-Century Guatemala

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-609
Author(s):  
Frederick Douglass Opie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Illegal Immigrants ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
The U.S

In May 2006, foreign-born workers, largely from Latin America, mobilized across the United States in response to calls from anti-immigrant groups for tougher federal policies against illegal immigrants. About 400,000 protested in Chicago, 300,000 in Los Angeles, and 75,000 in Denver. In fifty cities between Los Angeles and New York, workers organized walkouts, demonstrations, and rallies in an effort to show just how important they were to the smooth operation of the U.S. economy.

The Economic Impact of Tuberculosis in Hospitals in New York City: A Preliminary Analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 317-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter S. Arno ◽  
Christopher J.L. Murray ◽  
Karen A. Bonuck ◽  
Philip Alcabes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The City

There is a nationwide resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in the country’s urban centers; New York City stands at the forefront of this resurgence. The root causes are increased homelessness, drug addiction and poverty, all symbols of deteriorating social and economic conditions in the city. The inadequate level of public health resources devoted to TB has also contributed to its spread. Still, even with these factors, it is questionable whether the escalating number of TB cases in this country would have occurred without the reservoir of immunosuppressed persons, who are less resistant to the disease, created by the AIDS epidemic. The fear and urgency of this public health crisis, which has been emerging since the beginning of the last decade, are fueled by the rise of TB strains resistant to the first-line drugs and by the disease’s contagiousness.

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