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Another year is coming to a close, and here at The Metropole, we editors are once again sharing some recommendations for things to read, listen to, view, or experience in your “off” time in the coming year. This installment: the movies and television shows that we think should go on a “must watch” list. Movies […]
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Mayorga, Sarah. Urban Specters: The Everyday Harm of Racial Capitalism. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Reviewed by Minh Q. Nguyen Sarah Mayorga’s Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism provides an in-depth analysis of material life within two neighborhoods in Cincinnati, a Midwestern Rust Belt city, from the perspective of […]
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This is the fourth entry in our Metropolis of the Month for November 2023, Washington, DC. By Timothy Kumfer Standing on the sidewalk with a loudspeaker, Walter Pierce addressed the crowd assembled on the 1700 block of Willard Street, NW. “We’re here today to make clear to the rest of the real estate vultures and […]
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This is the third entry for our November 2023 Metropolis of the Month, Washington, DC. By Edwin A. Rodriguez In an interview with news media outlet Bloomberg, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson reflected on his book Green Earth (2015), inspired by his time living in Washington, DC. He noted that when he lived in […]
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Over the long weekend of October 26-29, urban historians gathered in Pittsburgh for the 10th biennial Urban History Association conference. The first UHA gathering since the pandemic, it was a resounding success, as evidenced by some of the tweets below. Special thanks to the planning arrangements committee, UHA President Joe Trotter, and UHA Executive Director […]
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This is the fifth installment to our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansions of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Dan Holland Sport has long been the leading edge of social […]
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This is the fourth installment to our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansions of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Lisa Varty As a disabled person myself, I have an interest […]
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This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. In her 2020 memoir Being Huemann, pioneering disability rights activist Judith Heumann recounted her adolescent experiences in New York […]
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For those of us over forty, and particularly for folks from the middle, few bands loom as large as The Replacements, the greatest band that never was. Paul Westerberg and his bandmates stumbled their way across the country, releasing one quality, ramshackle album after another, full of pathos, humor, and grief, all while undermining their […]
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Canaday, Margot. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Ryan Reft When George Chauncey published Gay New York in the early 1990s, it fundamentally shifted the historical field and, eventually, the public’s understanding of gay life at the turn of the twentieth century. Building on work […]
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