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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The world-building of Ms. Comey's granddaughter

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 Yesterday, I read a very interesting book review by Petal Samuel in Public Books , one of my favorite sites for reviews of academic books....
Friday, March 20, 2020

The Shared Inequalities of DC and Puerto Rico

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Back in 2011, I visited Brazil, which was so wonderful and interesting. In a blog post at that time, I looked at its notoriously high Gin...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Review of Huron’s wonderful commons book

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Today Washington, D.C., seems like a terrain of hyper-gentrification and widespread displacement. Yet D.C. has also been and continues to ...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Memorials to Socialism in Washington, DC

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I was invited to Warsaw to give a talk on memorials to socialism in Washington, DC: " The Other Washington Consensus: Remembering Soci...
Friday, April 5, 2019

The Ridiculous and Absurd in 1920s DC

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It was a great treat to watch a talk by UCLA History Professor Robin Kelley , in which he explains his term "racial capitalism." ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Opportunity hoarding on H St NE

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In preparation for my urban class today, I was looking at Thomas Sugrue's The Origins of the Urban Crisis  and saw this quotation that ...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

Gentrification on Capitol Hill Revisited

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The wonderful archivists at GWU Special Collections have posted online Anita Rechler's fascinating MA thesis:  https://scholarspace.lib...