scholarly journals A Queer Reading of the United States Census

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Frisch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Census ◽  
Neighborhood Development ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Sex Assignment ◽  
Defense Of Marriage Act ◽  
Center City ◽  
Us Census

AbstractLGBTQ neighborhoods face change. Planning for these neighborhoods requires data about LGBTQ residential concentration. Some analysts have used US Census same-sex partner data to make judgments about LGBTQ neighborhoods. Two agency actions make this reliance problematic. The US Census was required to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act and reassigned some LGBTQ responses in a heteronormal way. The Census also assigned sex based upon patterns of names. These US Census actions of gay removal and sex assignment to datasets raise questions about the usefulness of the partner dataset. A queer reading of the census may give a better representation of neighborhood development and decline. Data are developed for four queer neighborhoods: the West Village in New York City, Center City Philadelphia, Midtown Atlanta, and Midtown Kansas City. The results show that queer attributes of these areas grew to about 1990. Some queer attributes may have declined some from their peak. The results raise questions about social surveys, the closet, and the direction of LBGTQ neighborhoods in the twenty-first century. LGBTQ displacement has occurred.

America and the Irish problem, 1899–1921

1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (61) ◽  
pp. 64-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Ward
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
United States Census ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Irish Americans ◽  
John Mitchel

The United States census of 1910 revealed that there were four and a half million people in the United States who had beenborn in Ireland, or who had at least one Irish-born parent. The figures did not reveal that many other Americans identified themselves with Ireland, the country of their grandparents, or even of their great-grandparents, and it was not unusual for Irish-American leaders at that time to claim the support of fifteen or twenty million fellow Irish-Americans. A great many of these had, indeed, managed to retain a sense of Irish identity and this was in part because they, or their forebears, had largely settled together in Irish ghettos in large cities. In addition they had been forced inwards to their Irish community for support when persecuted by the ‘ Know-nothings ’ and other nativist groups in the nineteenth century. This Irish subculture in which they lived was cultivated by three groups of fellow Irish-Americans who had an interest in promoting an Irish-American community, the better to control and command the Irish-Americans themselves; the Roman Catholic Church, which was very much an Irish Catholic Church in America, the Irish political bosses, interested in political power rather than Ireland, who had risen to power in the Democratic party by their ability to control the Irish vote, and a third group which utilized the audience they both nurtured, the Irish nationalists. The skill with which these nationalists mobilized Irish-Americans in support of Ireland’s claim to independence added an important dimension to the British government’s Irish problem for it became a problem for successive American governments too. As long as Ireland remained tied to England there were in America men and women prepared to emulate John Mitchel who had declared, when he first landed in New York in November 1853, that he intended to make use of the freedom guaranteed him in America to stimulate the movement for Irish independence. It is the object of this paper to review, albeit briefly and incompletely, the significance of the activities of these Irish-American nationalists in the struggle for Irish freedom and in the development of Anglo-American relations during the period from the Boer war, which began in October 1899, to the Anglo-Irish treaty of December 1921.

scholarly journals Growing Income Inequality and Socioeconomic Segregation in the Chicago Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 349-369
Author(s):  
Janet L. Smith ◽  
Zafer Sonmez ◽  
Nicholas Zettel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Census Data ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Us Census

AbstractIncome inequality in the United States has been growing since the 1980s and is particularly noticeable in large urban areas like the Chicago metro region. While not as high as New York or Los Angeles, the Gini Coefficient for the Chicago metro area (.48) was the same as the United States in 2015 but rising at a faster rate, suggesting it will surpass the US national level in 2020. This chapter examines the Chicago region’s growing income inequality since 1980 using US Census data collected in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2015, focusing on where people live based on occupation as well as income. When mapped out, the data shows a city and region that is becoming more segregated by occupation and income as it becomes both richer and poorer. A result is a shrinking number of middle-class and mixed neighbourhoods. The resulting patterns of socioeconomic spatial segregation also align with patterns of racial/ethnic segregation attributed to historical housing development and market segmentation, as well as recent efforts to advance Chicago as a global city through tourism and real estate development.

me to Wall Street several times since the war. When dis-cussing these investments I found it fascinating to discover that the ablest minds in Wall Street are still conscious of the 'Covered Wagon' in framing their plans. Sitting in air-conditioned offices, aided by every gadget that modern science can devise, it at first seems paradoxical that bankers and brokers should be talking as a matter of course of opportunities for further expansion not only in the West but in other areas. For example, in 1954 I was told that the United States Steel Corporation was putting up a new plant in New Jersey 'to improve its competitive position in the Eastern States'. The idea of such an industrial giant being still in the least bit concerned about competition was frankly an eye-opener. Similarly, it was news to learn that most market agreements between the oil companies had been torn up, so that the public was getting the benefit of full competition in supplies and prices. But the Covered Wagon was most in evidence in discussing the shares of public utility companies, banks and stores. 'Continuous growth ahead' was predicted for a power company in Delaware; on the other hand a similar undertaking in another State was said to have no such prospects, since it was operating in an area where conditions were highly regulated. While the shares of certain New York banks offered small growth prospects, greater appreciation was expected in the shares of banks in Cleveland, Ohio and Kansas City. Those in California were not favoured, as the tremendous expansion there had still to be digested. Another factor in Wall Street is the increasing influence of

2012 ◽  
pp. 80-87
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Public ◽  
United States Steel Corporation ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
Growth Prospects

the inadvertent modification of the atmosphere by air pollution

1969 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent J. Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Front Range ◽  
Noticeable Increase ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dense Concentration

There has been a very noticeable increase in air pollution during the past ten years over and downwind of the several large metropolitan areas of the United States such as the Northwest—Vancouver-Seattle-Tacoma-Portland; the West Coast from San Francisco-Sacramento-Fresno-Los Angeles; the Front Range of the Rockies from Boulder-Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo; the Midwest—Omaha-Kansas City-St. Louis-Memphis; the Great Lakes area of Chicago-Detroit-Cleveland-Buffalo; and the Northeast—Washington-Philadelphia-New York-Boston. The worst accumulation of particulate matter occurs at the top of the inversion which commonly intensifies at night at levels ranging from 1000 to 4000 ft or so above the ground. This dense concentration of air-suspended particles is most apparent to air travelers. Thus, it has not as yet disturbed the general public except during periods of stagnant weather systems when the concentration of heavily polluted air extends downward and engulfs them on the highways, at their homes and in their working areas.

Gerald H. Thayer's ornithological work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

The “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Wide Acceptance

In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japanese stagiaires to French restaurants in Europe and the United States encouraged a series of changes that I am calling the “Japanese turn,” which found chefs at fine-dining establishments in Los Angeles, New York City, and later the San Francisco Bay Area using an ever-widening array of Japanese ingredients, employing Japanese culinary techniques, and adding Japanese dishes to their menus. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the wide acceptance of not only Japanese ingredients and techniques but also concepts like umami (savory tastiness) and shun (seasonality) suggest that Japanese cuisine is now well known to many American chefs.

Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
Lillian Taiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

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