Who’s the Real Boss?

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-165
Author(s):  
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
The Real ◽  
Celebrity Status ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
Wild West ◽  
The U.S

This chapter explores the mediac rebirth of Colombia’s so-called Cocaine Queen of the 1970s, whose criminal reign extended from Medellín to New York and Miami. It argues that Blanco’s posthumous celebrity status in popular culture took place once the media’s interest in Escobar and narcocultura became a well-established trend. This is evidenced by the emergence of two biographies, the telenovela La viuda negra, and extensive press coverage, all of which invariably compare her notoriety to that of Escobar. Also worthy of note is the Colombian influence on cocaine trafficking in Miami, where extreme violence and cash flow changed the city’s character from a mecca for retirees to a refashioned Wild West. Informed on Billy Corben’s documentaries Cocaine Cowboys (two installments) and Max Marmelstein’s criminal autobiography The Man Who Made It Snow, this chapter examines Griselda Blanco’s brutality as a narca in the U.S., her relationship with Pablo Escobar, and her volatile marriages and partners’ suspicious deaths, as well as her position in the drug trade, where her extreme cruelty kept her hitmen both in check and in constant admiration.

The Killing of Kitty Genovese: What Else Does This Case Tell Us?

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-381
Author(s):  
Saul M. Kassin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Bystander Intervention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wrongful Convictions ◽  
Singular Event ◽  
Human Social Behavior ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Probing Questions

Well known in popular culture, the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York, became famous because not one of an alleged 38 bystanders called police until it was too late. Within psychology, this singular event inspired the study of bystander intervention. With the spotlight of history focused on Ms. Genovese and bystanders, other events, also profound for what they tell us about human social behavior, have escaped public notice. Based on archival records and current interviews, this article describes the three issues linked to Genovese. First, three false confessions, taken from two individuals, led to their wrongful convictions and imprisonment. One of these individuals was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona (1966); the other individual is alive and well and wants to clear his name. Second, the narrative of the unresponsive bystander was initiated by police, not by journalists, in response to probing questions about one of these confessions. Finally, there is the ironic fact, which somehow has slipped through the cracks, that the killer of Genovese was ultimately captured as a result of the intervention of two bystanders.

The Real School Safety Problem

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Kupchik
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Safe Schools ◽  
Original Research ◽  
School Security ◽  
Safety Problem ◽  
The Real ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The U.S

Since the 1990s, K-12 schools across the U.S. have changed in important ways in an effort to maintain safe schools. They have added police officers, surveillance cameras, zero tolerance policies, and other equipment and personnel, while increasingly relying on suspension and other punishments. Unfortunately, we have implemented these practices based on assumptions that they will be effective at maintaining safety and helping youth, not based on evidence. The Real School Safety Problem addresses this problem in two ways. One, it provides a clear discussion of what we know and what we don’t yet know about the school security and punishment practices and their effects on students and schools. Two, it offers original research that extends what we know in important ways, showing how school security and punishment affects students, their families, their schools and their communities years into the future. Schools are indeed in crisis. But the real school safety problem is not that students are either out of control or in danger. Rather, the real school safety problem is that our efforts to maintain school safety have gone too far and in the wrong directions. As a result, we over-police and punish students in a way that hurts students, their families and their communities in broad and long-lasting ways.

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.”

Postfeminism’s Impact on Gendered labour

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Beverly Maria Francis ◽  
Dr. Cheryl Davis
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Housewives

Since the advent of postfeminist culture in the 1990s, women’s desire has often been described as wanting to return to a domestic, feminine lifestyle in which women are portrayed as “keen to re-embrace the title of housewife and re-experience the joys of a ‘new femininity’” (Genz and Brabon, 2009: 57). In movie and TV programs such as Footballer's Wives (2002-2006), The Real Housewives franchise, and Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), the rebranding of domestic labor as a place of enjoyment and liberty expressed through popular culture rejects feminist worries about tedious, repetitive, and exploitative housework.

Individuals In Postmodern Society And Evolution Of New York In Select Novels Of Don Delillo.

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-879
Author(s):  
M. Thendral ◽  
Dr. G. Parvathy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
Don Delillo ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
American Society ◽  
Effects Of Media

DeLillo is a well- known American novelist of fifteen novels, who is widely regarded by other critics as an important satirist of modern culture. Throughout his novels, he has picturized the chaos underwent by the society i.e. the effects of media, technology and popular culture on the daily lives of contemporary American society. All of his novels move in and around New York City as a setting. The study attempts to examine the development of New York City and individuals in a post-modernistic perspective.

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