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Safe space : gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence / Christina B. Hanhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanhardt, Christina B.
- Series:
- Perverse modernities.
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay liberation movement--New York (State)--New York.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Gay liberation movement--California--San Francisco.
- Gentrification--New York (State)--New York.
- Gentrification.
- Gentrification--California--San Francisco.
- Community policing--New York (State)--New York.
- Community policing.
- Community policing--California--San Francisco.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354703
- 0822354705
- 9780822378860
- 0822378868
- OCLC:
- 1145328621
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