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Safe Space : Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanhardt, Christina B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The white ghetto" : sexual deviancy, police accountability, and the 1960s war on poverty
  • Butterflies, whistles, and fists: safe streets patrols and the "new" gay ghetto
  • "Count the contradictions" : theorizing race, gender, and sexuality in urban space
  • Visibility and victimization: hate crime and the geography of punishment
  • "Canaries of the creative age" : risk and real estate.