Demar F Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 140195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Demar F Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Demar F |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3475-9712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To Agitate a Southern Audience
Scholars have paid minimal attention to the political and practical objectives that guided Tuskegee Institute's sociological program and institutional interventions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leveraging a multi-modal, historical sociological approach grounded in primary and secondary analyses of biographical data, narratives, and archival data, I show that Tuskegee's institutional interventions illustrate three abolitionist tactic…
Mended Windows, Not Broken Windows
This study draws from W. E. B. Du Boi’s urban sociology in The Philadelphia Negro, Darkwater, and Black Reconstruction in America to offer a conceptual foil to present-day broken windows policing. We suggest that the Chicago School’s ecological model of urban life facilitated a broken windows approach to policing by labeling people and places as disordered but also that a Du Boisian approach—what we call “mended windows”—offers new ways of addres…
From Cultural Displacement to Communal Erasure
Scholars have paid minimal attention to the impact of gentrification on Black Americans' perceptions of safety beyond gentrifying neighborhoods. This article introduces "safety reimagination" as a way of documenting how conceptions of safety encompass multiple harms that include-but are not limited to-protections from crime and violence. Leveraging insights generated from 83 interviews with Black adults from diverse educational backgrounds and ne…
Beyond Policing
Troubling America's historical waters
This review considers a range of literatures that facilitate a critical discussion of lynching and legacies of lynching as present realities of the 21st Century in the United States of America. Although scholars in this field generally pride themselves on being “apolitical,” America's pioneering lynching scholars and anti‐lynching advocates desired to eradicate lynching because it tangibly threatened the safety of Black, racially minoritized, and…
Doing Violence, Making Race
Mended Windows, Not Broken Windows
This study draws from W. E. B. Du Boi’s urban sociology in The Philadelphia Negro, Darkwater, and Black Reconstruction in America to offer a conceptual foil to present-day broken windows policing. We suggest that the Chicago School’s ecological model of urban life facilitated a broken windows approach to policing by labeling people and places as disordered but also that a Du Boisian approach—what we call “mended windows”—offers new ways of addres…
Doing Violence, Making Race
Troubling America's historical waters
This review considers a range of literatures that facilitate a critical discussion of lynching and legacies of lynching as present realities of the 21st Century in the United States of America. Although scholars in this field generally pride themselves on being “apolitical,” America's pioneering lynching scholars and anti‐lynching advocates desired to eradicate lynching because it tangibly threatened the safety of Black, racially minoritized, and…
Mended Windows, Not Broken Windows
This study draws from W. E. B. Du Boi’s urban sociology in The Philadelphia Negro, Darkwater, and Black Reconstruction in America to offer a conceptual foil to present-day broken windows policing. We suggest that the Chicago School’s ecological model of urban life facilitated a broken windows approach to policing by labeling people and places as disordered but also that a Du Boisian approach—what we call “mended windows”—offers new ways of addres…
From Cultural Displacement to Communal Erasure
Scholars have paid minimal attention to the impact of gentrification on Black Americans' perceptions of safety beyond gentrifying neighborhoods. This article introduces "safety reimagination" as a way of documenting how conceptions of safety encompass multiple harms that include-but are not limited to-protections from crime and violence. Leveraging insights generated from 83 interviews with Black adults from diverse educational backgrounds and ne…
Beyond Policing
To Agitate a Southern Audience
Scholars have paid minimal attention to the political and practical objectives that guided Tuskegee Institute's sociological program and institutional interventions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leveraging a multi-modal, historical sociological approach grounded in primary and secondary analyses of biographical data, narratives, and archival data, I show that Tuskegee's institutional interventions illustrate three abolitionist tactic…
Sociology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Advertising (1 works)