Over these past ten weeks, my research interests in African American history and culture were re-affirmed. Seeing the voids in history has made me aware of what I want to see more of: black culture and history. While I was not able to interview Erika Hart, a participant in the Illness and Identity exhibit showcased…
city lore
Urban Practice Fellowship Mapping Project
*My Google Map chronicling the Place Matters sites and boroughs I have visited during this fellowships.* For my storytelling project with City Lore, I had a lot of freedom as to which Place Matters sites I chose to research and interview at. The first one was The Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC), next was the…
Definition of a “field”: Thoughts on City Lore, cultural preservation, and community-organization relations
“Sociologists who study organizations sometimes use the term ‘field’ to describe a set of organizations linked together as competitors and collaborators within a social space devoted to a particular type of action — such as a market for certain products, the pursuit of urban development, or the realm of electoral politics. Agreements struck among the…
