Chapter 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York City

2014 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
Neighborhood Politics

“A Shelter Can Tip the Scales Sometimes”: Disinvestment, Gentrification, and the Neighborhood Politics of Homelessness in 1980s New York City

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 915-931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Neighborhood Politics ◽  
New Yorkers

In the 1980s, visible homelessness became one of the most pressing problems in New York City. While most New Yorkers expressed sympathy for the homeless, many of them also resisted efforts to site shelters and service facilities in their neighborhoods. But far from being simply a case of NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) sentiment, protests over the placement of these facilities arose in the context of decades-long neighborhood movements against urban disinvestment and the beginning of gentrification in some New York City neighborhoods. I argue that understanding this history is crucial to parsing the complex politics of anti-homeless facility protests in the 1980s and to understanding the rise of “quality of life” policies that would govern many neoliberal urban spaces by the 1990s.

Cuba’s Revolutionary Spirit and the Hopes of Free Spain

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-100
Author(s):  
Ariel Mae Lambe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Recruitment Effort ◽  
Individual Human

Chapter 3 follows Pablo de la Torriente Brau from where we left him in chapter 1, examining his path from the Cuban domestic struggle into exile and then on to a combat death on the Spanish front in December 1936. His trajectory illustrates at an individual human scale the meaning of transnational antifascism for Cuban activists. The chapter studies recruitment in New York City and Havana for the Cuban volunteers inspired by Torriente, and considers the logistics of the recruitment effort. It examines notable Cuban martyrs in the Spanish conflict as well as their symbolism, especially with regard to the pursuit of Cuba’s domestic struggle abroad. The chapter discusses Cubans’ belief that Spain would offer “countless lessons that will benefit our people” in the fight back home.

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