Christina B. Hanhardt

Safe Space

Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence

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Produktbeschreibung

A historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color.

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Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354703
• ISBN-10: 0822354705
• Artikelnr.: 37716467

Autorenporträt

Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. "The White Ghetto": Sexual Deviancy, Police Accountability, and the
1960s War on Poverty 35
2. Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Safe Streets Patrols and Militant Gay
Liberalism in the 1970s 81
3. "Count the Contradictions": Challenges to Gay Gentrification at the
Start of the Reagan Era 117
4. Visibility and Victimization: Hate Crime Laws and the Geography of
Punishment, 1980s and 1990s 155
5. "Canaries of the Creative Age": Queer Critiques of Risk and Real Estate
in the Twenty-First Century 185
Conclusion 221
Epilogue 227
Appendix: Neighborhood Maps of New York and San Francisco 231
Notes 233
Bibliography 315
Index 335