Slumming

Download Slumming PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Slumming book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page

Slumming

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Chad Heap
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-11-15

Slumming written by Chad Heap and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-15 with Social Science categories.

During Prohibition, “Harlem was the ‘in’ place to go for music and booze,” recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. “Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner,” and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, and the unmatchable thrill of doing something disreputable. That is the indelible public image of slumming, but as Chad Heap reveals in this fascinating history, the reality is that slumming was far more widespread—and important—than such nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a “fashionable dissipation” centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, Slumming charts the development of this popular pastime, demonstrating how its moralizing origins were soon outstripped by the artistic, racial, and sexual adventuring that typified Jazz-Age America. Vividly recreating the allure of storied neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village and Bronzeville, with their bohemian tearooms, rent parties, and “black and tan” cabarets, Heap plumbs the complicated mix of curiosity and desire that drew respectable white urbanites to venture into previously off-limits locales. And while he doesn’t ignore the role of exploitation and voyeurism in slumming—or the resistance it often provoked—he argues that the relatively uninhibited mingling it promoted across bounds of race and class helped to dramatically recast the racial and sexual landscape of burgeoning U.S. cities. Packed with stories of late-night dance, drink, and sexual exploration—and shot through with a deep understanding of cities and the habits of urban life—Slumming revives an era that is long gone, but whose effects are still felt powerfully today.

Slumming

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Seth Koven
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2004

Slumming written by Seth Koven and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

In this book, Koven paints a portrait of the fashionable Londoners in the 1880s, who crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming.

Slumming

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Seth Koven
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-13

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Literary Slumming

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Eliza Jane Smith
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-08-06

Literary Slumming written by Eliza Jane Smith and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France reveals how the use of slang in French literature and culture led to the emergence of a sociolinguistic phenomenon that prioritized criminal life and culture in a way that expanded class boundaries and increased visibility for minorities within the public sphere.

Slumming In New York

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Robert M. Dowling
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2007

Slumming In New York written by Robert M. Dowling and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with American fiction categories.

This remarkable exploration of the underbelly of New York City life from 1880 to 1930 takes readers through the city's inexhaustible variety of distinctive neighborhood cultures. Slumming in New York shows how the city's rich and poor, foreign-born and native-born, competed for a voice from such diverse vantage points as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's "black bohemia," the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem. Investigating a wide range of New York "slumming" narratives in which mainstream outsiders write about marginalized urban insiders, Robert M. Dowling shows how literary works transformed moral threats into cultural treasures.

Slumming

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Kristen D. Randle
language : en
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date : 2003-07-01

Slumming written by Kristen D. Randle and has been published by HarperTeen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not? Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired, and the three unexpectedly find themselves launching a "human experiment." It seems like the perfect way to make a difference in their last few weeks of high school: they will each pick a student who needs a little improving and take that person to the prom. Harmless, right? When Nikki, Alicia, and Sam quickly become entrenched in their projects, each has to face difficult realizations about the people they have chosen -- and themselves. Before long their own close friendship feels fragile. Will they make it to graduation without hurting one another -- or anybody else? Acclaimed author Kristen D. Randle has woven an intriguing, insightful, and suspenseful story about three friends who set out to transform others, with unforeseen consequences.

Slumming It

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Fabian Frenzel
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2016-06-15

Slumming It written by Fabian Frenzel and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with Business & Economics categories.

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums exert on their better-off visitors, looking at the many ways in which this curious form of attraction ignites changes both in the slums themselves and on the world stage. Covering slums in Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and multiple cities in South Africa, Kenya and India, Slumming It examines the roots and consequences of a growing phenomenon whose effects have ranged from gentrification and urban policy reform to the organization of international development and poverty alleviation. Controversially, Frenzel argues that the rise of slum tourism has drawn attention to important global justice issues, and is far more complex than we initially acknowledged.

Slumming India

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Gita Dewan Verma
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 2002

Slumming India written by Gita Dewan Verma and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.

This book is a chronicle of our times, offering a glimpse into what needs to be done, to redress the chaos that is urban development. Written with honesty, it is the story of the slumming in our cities and how a large number of urbanites living on pavements came to be slumwalas and how a number of urban development walas are letting our cities slowly die.

Slumming

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Kristen D. Randle
language : en
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date : 2003-07-01

In their senior year of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an "experiment" in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs attention and try to improve that person's life.

Staging The Slums Slumming The Stage

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : J. Westgate
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-15

Staging The Slums Slumming The Stage written by J. Westgate and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Social Science categories.

Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

Slumming

Recent Posts