生于火焰之中:纵火、种族资本主义与20世纪末布朗克斯的再保险

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q4 BUSINESS
Bench Ansfield
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20世纪70年代,一股房东纵火潮席卷了美国各地的城市,摧毁了有色人种贫困社区的大部分社区。尽管造成了巨大的损失——这些年里损失了数十万套住房——但历史学家忽略了对国家城市的焚烧,人们的记忆将20世纪70年代的纵火浪潮与20世纪60年代破坏性较小的城市起义混为一谈。在同一年内,美国各地的城市地区怎么可能经历如此前所未有的纵火事件?答案不在于暴动,而在于赔偿。这个项目的核心是种族分层的财产保险市场的不为人知的历史,这是造成美国城市不平等的关键力量。《生于火焰:纵火、种族资本主义和20世纪末布朗克斯的再保险》将20世纪70年代的纵火浪潮定位为了解20世纪末种族资本主义转型的一扇独特窗口,或种族等级制度与资本主义指控的必要性之间的纠缠。这个项目是由我依次提出的三个问题推动的:为什么这些年城市会付之一炬?他们的火是如何扑灭的?他们的灰烬中出现了什么?总之,这些看似简单的调查线索为过去50年来建筑环境、商业环境和美国资本主义的重组提供了新的线索。本项目接地
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Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century
During the 1970s, a wave of landlord arson coursed through cities across the United States, destroying large portions of neighborhoods home to poor communities of color. Despite its massive toll — hundreds of thousands of housing units were lost in these years — historians have neglected the burning of the nation ’ s cities, and popular memory has confused the 1970s arson wave with the less destructive urban uprisings of the 1960s. How was it possible that urban areas across the United States, all within the same years, experienced such unprece-dented levels of arson? The answer hinges not on insurrection but rather indemnification, and at the center of this project is the untold history of the racially stratified property insurance market, a key force in the making of U.S. urban inequality. Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century positions the 1970s arson wave as a singular window into late twentieth century transformations in racial capitalism, or the entanglement between racial hierarchy and the imperatives of capitalist accu-mulation. The project is propelled by three questions that I ask in sequence: Why did cities go up in flames in these years? How were their fires extinguished? And what arose in their ashes? Together, these seemingly simple lines of inquiry cast new light on the restructuring of the built environment, the business environment, and American capitalism over the past five decades. This project is grounded
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期刊介绍: Enterprise & Society offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries and grounded in a broad historical framework are welcome, as are innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and its context.
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