"Unfit for Family Life": How Regimes of Accumulation, Sexuality, and Antiblackness Have Built (and Rebuilt) West Baltimore

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dc.contributor.advisorSies, Mary Corbinen_US
dc.contributor.authorChoflet, Robert Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-14T06:32:53Z
dc.date.available2021-02-14T06:32:53Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstract“'Unfit for Family Life': How Regimes of Accumulation, Sexuality, and Antiblackness Built (and Rebuilt) West Baltimore,” is an historical study of West Baltimore housing transformation in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. Derived from in-depth oral histories conducted over a number of years with fifty-three Baltimore residents who have lived in (or currently live in) public housing, this project drew from resident reflections and rigorous archival work, in order to investigate the demolition campaigns that reduced Baltimore's public housing stock by almost half and the privatization campaigns that have rebuilt these once public spaces. Policy makers, housing reformers, planners, and real estate interests constructed a shared cultural politics that imagined black women as imperiled actors, public housing as destabilizing to black family life, and demolition and privatization as a necessary, even moral, intervention. This process ignored black women's organizing efforts and specific political demands, while isolating them from one another and disrupting established political coalitions. In spite of this, oral histories reveal continued efforts by residents to organize for democratic redistribution of housing resources.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/wi3g-8bar
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26795
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBlack studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGeographyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic policyen_US
dc.title"Unfit for Family Life": How Regimes of Accumulation, Sexuality, and Antiblackness Have Built (and Rebuilt) West Baltimoreen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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