HST 658 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tower Town, Voyeurism, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
22 Jan 2018
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Lecture 4: nightlife and sex: commercial entertainments between the wars. Our time period really covers more of a range of dates -- from the 1890s through the. 1930s but with the inter-war years (1919-1940) as an era of special interest due tot he expansion of the consumer economy. The tension we are exploring this week in the readings and today in lecture are related to the phenomenon of "slumming. " Discuss earlier versions of urban slumming that emerged from what we have talked about already: - the differentiation of city space into increasingly distinct areas defined by class and race but also by use -- industrial, manufacturing, middle and upper class retail, lower class retail; - the movement of middle and upper class people away from congested multi-use areas that defined working class and poor neighborhoods of cities. The attraction of vice -- that mixture of pleasure and danger for the consumers.
