Week 1 (8/31) - What is this place? (RS&I)
Section outline
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How do you get to know a city? What lenses do you use? Meeting DC’s history and present as guests this semester.
Listen:
Johnson, J. (2016, May 11). Anacostia Unmapped: The Nacotchtank and the First Gentrifiers. WAMU.
Read:
Mathuria, S. (2019, March 28). Place & privilege: Telling stories about places that aren’t yours. Progressive City.
Overly, S., Smith-Barrow, D., O’Donnell, K., & Li, M. (2022, April 15). Washington Was an Icon of Black Political Power. Then Came Gentrification. POLITICO.
(Read only pp. 37-41.) Verloo, N. (2020). Urban ethnography and participant observations: Studying the city from within. In N. Verloo & L. Bertolini (Eds.), Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban (pp. 37-55). Amsterdam University Press.