Robert O Self
Biographic Data
| ID | 1460337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert O Self |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | O Self |
| SIGNATURE | SELF R O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hella Town
Oakland, California, situated across the bay from San Francisco, is the quintessential second city. It is, depending on the metaphor of choice, in the shadow of, little sibling to, or the grittier neighbor of its more celebrated urban counterpart. But those metaphors—to say nothing of the greatest cliché of all, Gertrude Stein’s “there is no there there” dismissal of the city—grew outworn long ago. Oakland is a city like any other, deserving of i…
Razing Kids
The kids are not, in fact, alright. Or so we learn from Jeffrey Sanders in his smart and fascinating, if episodic, account of young people in western environments during and after World War II. From the playgrounds of wartime shipbuilding boom cities to the insidious spread of radiation from postwar atomic testing, from the underresourced Watts on the brink of explosion in 1965 to the Yakima Valley, Washington farmworker camps of the same era, yo…
Intimate States
Sex in the City
In Los Angeles, Hollywood in particular, straight‐themed pornography and gay male nightlife became more visible and, moral reformers believed, of grave public concern between the early 1960s and the early 1970s. As a result, defining the limits of sexual freedom became a problem for urban public officials, who resolved the dilemma by casting heterosexual sex entertainment as disruptive of neighbourhood quality of life, making it a question of pro…
The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era
In Search of the Black Panther Party
American Babylon
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner polit…
Sex in the City
In Los Angeles, Hollywood in particular, straight‐themed pornography and gay male nightlife became more visible and, moral reformers believed, of grave public concern between the early 1960s and the early 1970s. As a result, defining the limits of sexual freedom became a problem for urban public officials, who resolved the dilemma by casting heterosexual sex entertainment as disruptive of neighbourhood quality of life, making it a question of pro…
American Babylon
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner polit…
The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era
In Search of the Black Panther Party
Sex in the City
In Los Angeles, Hollywood in particular, straight‐themed pornography and gay male nightlife became more visible and, moral reformers believed, of grave public concern between the early 1960s and the early 1970s. As a result, defining the limits of sexual freedom became a problem for urban public officials, who resolved the dilemma by casting heterosexual sex entertainment as disruptive of neighbourhood quality of life, making it a question of pro…
Intimate States
Razing Kids
The kids are not, in fact, alright. Or so we learn from Jeffrey Sanders in his smart and fascinating, if episodic, account of young people in western environments during and after World War II. From the playgrounds of wartime shipbuilding boom cities to the insidious spread of radiation from postwar atomic testing, from the underresourced Watts on the brink of explosion in 1965 to the Yakima Valley, Washington farmworker camps of the same era, yo…
Hella Town
Oakland, California, situated across the bay from San Francisco, is the quintessential second city. It is, depending on the metaphor of choice, in the shadow of, little sibling to, or the grittier neighbor of its more celebrated urban counterpart. But those metaphors—to say nothing of the greatest cliché of all, Gertrude Stein’s “there is no there there” dismissal of the city—grew outworn long ago. Oakland is a city like any other, deserving of i…
Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · 20th century (2 works) · African americans (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (2 works) · Civil rights (2 works)