Mission District, San Francisco

Keeper ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 32-32
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Mission District

scholarly journals Estimation of secondary household attack rates for emergent spike L452R SARS-CoV-2 variants detected by genomic surveillance at a community-based testing site in San Francisco

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Peng ◽  
Jamin Liu ◽  
Sabrina A Mann ◽  
Anthea M Mitchell ◽  
Matthew T Laurie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Reproductive Number ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Viral Loads ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Household Contacts ◽  
Epidemiological Tool ◽  
Testing Site ◽  
New Mutations

Abstract Background Sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome from patient samples is an important epidemiological tool for monitoring and responding to the pandemic, including the emergence of new mutations in specific communities. Methods SARS-CoV-2genomicsequencesweregeneratedfrompositivesamplescollected,alongwithepidemiologicalmetadata,atawalk-up, rapid testing site in the Mission District of San Francisco, California during November 22-December 1, 2020 and January 10-29, 2021. Secondary household attack rates and mean sample viral load were estimated and compared across observed variants. Results A total of 12,124 tests were performed yielding 1,099 positives. From these, 928 high quality genomes were generated. Certain viral lineages bearing spike mutations, defined in part by L452R, S13I, and W152C, comprised 54.4% of the total sequences from January, compared to 15.7% in November. Household contacts exposed to the “California” or “West Coast” variants (B.1.427 and B.1.429) were at higher risk of infection compared to household contacts exposed to lineages lacking these variants (0.36 vs 0.29, RR=1.28; 95% CI:1.00-1.64). The reproductive number was estimated to be modestly higher than other lineages spreading in California during the second half of 2020. Viral loads were similar among persons infected with West Coast versus non-West Coast strains, as was the proportion of individuals with symptoms (60.9% vs 64.3%). Conclusions The increase in prevalence, relative household attack rates, and reproductive number are consistent with a modest transmissibility increase of the West Coast variants.

24th and Mission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Central American ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
New Right ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Sandinista Revolution ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Nicaraguan Revolution

Gay and lesbian radicals opposed both the domestic and the foreign policies of the New Right and became allies to Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution. Starting in 1978, activists began to organize uniquely lesbian and gay solidarity with Nicaragua and to use these efforts to address tensions between sexuality, socialism, and racial and ethnic identities. Lesbian and gay solidarity was anti-imperialist, anti-militarist, and sought multiracial community in the San Francisco Mission District. Activists built groups including the Gay Latino Alliance, Gay People for the Nicaraguan Revolution, and Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention. By 1983 lesbian and gay radicals had won a major presence in Central American solidarity and forged networks tied to women of color feminism and the San Francisco Women's Building.

scholarly journals Seeing Through Murals

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Lori A. Flores
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Historical Presence

The late 20th and 21st century tech boom-related gentrification of San Francisco has rapidly and violently displaced longtime city residents, particularly in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of the Mission District. While some may characterize this gentrification as more economically than racially consequential, the negligible overlap between Latino and techie demographics means that the possible disappearance of Latino San Francisco is very real. This essay uses the famed murals of the Mission District as the lens through which we can see Latinos’ complex and historical presence in this California city, and then interrogate how they can continue to play a part in its future.

scholarly journals #mysanfrancisco: Social Media and the Conceptual Linguistic Landscape

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Conceptual Aspect ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Land Scape

Recent attempts to advance the field of Linguistic Landscapes (LL) have emphasized the importance of contending with the ‘actors’ of the LL and their role in interpreting or interacting with language in place (Waksman and Shohamy 2016; Barni and Bagna 2015; Malinowski 2009). This paper addresses this interest in what I refer to as the LL’s interpretant (a` la Peirce 1955) or conceptual aspect by analyzing representations of physical space posted on Instagram, a popular photo sharing platform. Using a corpus of Instagram posts geotagged within the Mission District in San Francisco, California, I employ methods such as topic modeling and sentiment analysis to investigate the ways individuals are seen to engage with the semiotic land- scape of the neighborhood and explore how the Mission itself is discursively constructed through these subjective recontextualizations. In doing so I aim to highlight aspects of the relationship between social media and physical place and the ways language is seen to mediate this dynamic. I argue geo- graphically tagged social media is not representative of an LL but productive, viewing the selective and subjective displays found online to be as much a part of the LL context as a potential key to understanding it.

Shaping the City from Below

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Carlsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City ◽  
Dot Com

This article surveys social movements in San Francisco that have resisted and blocked various development schemes from the 1960s to the beginning of the 21st century. Notable examples include fights against redevelopment in the Fillmore and South of Market, gentrification in the Mission District, the campaign to save the International Hotel, the fight against “Manhattanization” of San Francisco through high rises downtown, the rise of community-based nonprofit housing developers alongside the establishment of rent control, and the contentious battles over space during the dot-com boom and bust from 1999 to 2000.

Let’s get phygital

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Objective Information ◽  
Mission District

Abstract This paper considers the interplay of physical and digital landscaping in the Mission District (‘the Mission’), a gentrified neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Aligned with recent work on affect and people’s mediations of the linguistic landscape (Wee, 2016; Banda & Jimaima, 2015), I examine how the Mission is filtered – literally and figuratively – in a corpus of 16,756 Instagram posts. Comparing these digital remediated productions of place to the physical landscape, I demonstrate how both are structured semiotically along exclusionary lines. Contrary to the democratic and inclusive mythology of digital / social media, I show how users’ self-positionings and elitist stancetaking (Jaworski & Thurlow, 2009; Mapes, forthcoming) effectively reinscribe privilege and reiterate gentrification of the Mission. As mining of ‘big data’ becomes increasingly valued as empirically ‘objective’ information, my analysis demonstrates geotagged content should not be viewed as a static indicator, but as a subjective, dynamic and – at times – problematic process.

Concurrent Partnerships Among Adolescents in a Latino Community: The Mission District of San Francisco, California

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 437-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene A. Doherty ◽  
Alexandra Minnis ◽  
Colette L. Auerswald ◽  
Adaora A. Adimora ◽  
Nancy S. Padian
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Concurrent Partnerships ◽  
Latino Community

Geographies of Displacement: Latina/os, Oral History, and The Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Raquel Mirabal
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Oral History ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Mission District

Abstract During the 1990s and early 2000s, working-class and poor neighborhoods in San Francisco underwent dramatic economic and racial changes. One of the most heavily gentrified neighborhoods was the Mission District. As a result of local politics, housing and rental policies, real estate speculation, and development, thousands of Latina/o families were displaced. Using oral historical and ethnographic methodologies, print media, archival sources, and policy papers, this article traces the gentrification of the Mission District from the perspective of the Latina/o community. It also examines how gentrification was articulated as a positive turn within the larger public discourse on space and access.

scholarly journals Estimation of secondary household attack rates for emergent SARS-CoV-2 variants detected by genomic surveillance at a community-based testing site in San Francisco

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Peng ◽  
Sabrina A Mann ◽  
Anthea M Mitchell ◽  
Jamin Liu ◽  
Matthew T. Laurie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Reproductive Number ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Viral Loads ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Household Contacts ◽  
Epidemiological Tool ◽  
Testing Site

ABSTRACTBackgroundSequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome from patient samples is an important epidemiological tool for monitoring and responding to the pandemic, including the emergence of new mutations in specific communities.MethodsSARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences were generated from positive samples collected, along with epidemiological metadata, at a walk-up, rapid testing site in the Mission District of San Francisco, California during November 22-December 2, 2020 and January 10-29, 2021. Secondary household attack rates and mean sample viral load were estimated and compared across observed variants.ResultsA total of 12,124 tests were performed yielding 1,099 positives. From these, 811 high quality genomes were generated. Certain viral lineages bearing spike mutations, defined in part by L452R, S13I, and W152C, comprised 54.9% of the total sequences from January, compared to 15.7% in November. Household contacts exposed to “West Coast” variants were at higher risk of infection compared to household contacts exposed to lineages lacking these variants (0.357 vs 0.294, RR=1.29; 95% CI:1.01-1.64). The reproductive number was estimated to be modestly higher than other lineages spreading in California during the second half of 2020. Viral loads were similar among persons infected with West Coast versus non-West Coast strains, as was the proportion of individuals with symptoms (60.9% vs 64.1%).ConclusionsThe increase in prevalence, relative household attack rates, and reproductive number are consistent with a modest transmissibility increase of the West Coast variants; however, additional laboratory and epidemiological studies are required to better understand differences between these variants.SummaryWe observed a growing prevalence and elevated attack rate for “West Coast” SARS-CoV-2 variants in a community testing setting in San Francisco during January 2021, suggesting its modestly higher transmissibility.

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