Reclaiming San Francisco
Title | Reclaiming San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | James Brook |
Publisher | City Lights Books |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780872863354 |
Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists-along with the stories of speculators, land-grabbers, and the land itself that need to be told differently. Contributors include historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.
Reclaiming San Francisco
Title | Reclaiming San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | City Lights Books |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 4 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Reclaiming San Francisco |
ISBN |
Enchanted Feminism
Title | Enchanted Feminism PDF eBook |
Author | Jone Salomonsen |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780415223928 |
The first major study of the famous Reclaiming community of witches, founded in 1979 in San Francisco. Examines gendered and religious identites and the communal and ritual processes of Reclaiming.
Hidden San Francisco
Title | Hidden San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Carlsson |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780745340944 |
San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city's most interesting stories are not the Summer of Love, the Beats or even the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley. Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology, labour, transit and dissent, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of San Francisco's history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries, secret music and poetry venues, forgotten terrorist bombings, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area's long prehistory as well, examining the region's geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything, setting in motion the clash between capital and labour that shaped the modern city. From the perspective of the students and secretaries, longshoremen and waitresses, Hidden San Francisco uncovers dozens of overlooked, forgotten and buried histories that pulse through the streets and hills even today, inviting the reader to see themselves in the middle of the ongoing, everyday process of making history together.
Ten Years That Shook the City
Title | Ten Years That Shook the City PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Carlsson |
Publisher | City Lights Publishers |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781931404129 |
The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.
Reclaiming Community
Title | Reclaiming Community PDF eBook |
Author | Bianca J. Baldridge |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2019-05-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1503607909 |
Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Baldridge persuasively argues that the story of EE is representative of a much larger and understudied phenomenon. With the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism—marked by individualism, market competition, and privatization—these bastions of community support are losing the autonomy that has allowed them to embolden the minds of the youth they serve. Baldridge captures the stories of loss and resistance within this context of immense external political pressure, arguing powerfully for the damage caused when the same structural violence that Black youth experience in school, starts to occur in the places they go to escape it.
The San Francisco Bay Area
Title | The San Francisco Bay Area PDF eBook |
Author | Mel Scott |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520055124 |