HIST 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cosmopolitanism, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Parsons
30 Nov 2016
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South: les, immigrant, largely jewish, tenement neighborhoods. Came to refer not so much to an exact neighborhood but to a fictive community . World: cosmopolitan pull, revolutionary circuits (us, mexico, europe, russia) New forms of: sociability, gender relations/politics, inter-ethnic relations, artistic expression, cross-class community. Cosmopolitanism, vital connections (btwn ppl, to life), feminism/new modes of sexuality, revolution (thru arts/letters) Arrived nyc 1889 (from rochester, after failed early marriage) Set up schwab"s saloon--center of community of labor, radicals, new women, immigrant intellectuals. Best known us advocate for birth control. Educated as nurse, bcame housewife, then returned to nursing on les. Arrested and indicted for violating obscenity laws, fled to europe. Bkln brownsville clinic f. 1916, 500 women treated in first 10 days. Shift from feminist radical to scientist and expert (eugenics) Phd (but w drew) w j dewey. First maj us showing of mod art. Bitter weather, unemployment, street theater protests of nyc churches, arrests.
