Davarian L Baldwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 384843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davarian L Baldwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davarian L |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldwin |
| SIGNATURE | BALDWIN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Universities Can Be
One week before the 2025 presidential inauguration, a group of scholars met virtually and began a conversation about the multiple and overlapping crises in higher education, from austerity budgets and labor exploitation to the assault on DEI and police raids on pro-Palestinian encampments. In the intervening months—as the new administration further ramped up assaults on higher education—the group continued their conversation virtually and on the …
Cities, Racialized Poverty, and Infrastructures of Possibility
This essay argues that the study of urban poverty is too often characterised by the disappearance of specific people and bodily politics from our analytic frames, rendering modes of life and politics illegible to scholars. We call for attention to the embodied politics of knowledge production, as neighbourhoods surrounding universities are exploited first as laboratories for poverty scholarship—exemplified in the relationship between the Chicago …
Landscapes of Hope
“Black Chicago” may well be the most-studied (some say over-studied) African-American community in the United States. The fascinating blend of environmental and cultural-history methods in Landscapes of Hope shines new and exciting light on the so-called Black Belt, forcing us to look again at what we thought we knew so well. In this work, McCammack’s deft attention to the making and imagining of “natural” and landscaped environments on Chicago’s…
"The "800-Pound Gargoyle
Today colleges and universities are the dominant employers, real estate holders, policing agents, and educational and health care providers in major cities where they once played a less prominent role. Neighborhoods of color surrounding urban campuses are left most vulnerable to the for-profit developments of higher education, because the land is cheap and the citizens hold little political influence. This essay examines the long-standing relatio…
Escape from New York
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance. What is less known is how far afield of Harlem that renaissance flourished—how much the New Negro movement …
Emancipation's Diaspora
Not since Leslie Harris’s In the Shadow of Slavery (2003) has a historian examined the story of slavery, Civil War, and freedom above the Mason Dixon line with such productive results. In Emancipation's Diaspora Leslie A. Schwalm draws our attention to perhaps the most unlikely place for discussing the changing meanings of race and freedom in the Reconstruction era: the upper midwestern states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. This region is per…
Introductory Comment
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Journal Article The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism Get access The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. By Knupfer Anne Meis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn0-252-03047-8. Paper, $20.00, isbn0-252-07293-6.) Davarian L. Baldwin Davarian L. Baldwin Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Black Belts and Ivory Towers
Using the University of Chicago as a case study, this essay examines the racial foundations of sociological thought during the discipline's rising academic legitimacy and cultural authority, in the first half of the 20 th century. Much more than critical hindsight, the basic theories and methods developed by the “Chicago School” and Robert Park in particular did not just construct racial categories, but were constructed by national anxieties abou…
Out from the Shadow of E. Franklin Frazier
Cities, Racialized Poverty, and Infrastructures of Possibility
This essay argues that the study of urban poverty is too often characterised by the disappearance of specific people and bodily politics from our analytic frames, rendering modes of life and politics illegible to scholars. We call for attention to the embodied politics of knowledge production, as neighbourhoods surrounding universities are exploited first as laboratories for poverty scholarship—exemplified in the relationship between the Chicago …
"The "800-Pound Gargoyle
Today colleges and universities are the dominant employers, real estate holders, policing agents, and educational and health care providers in major cities where they once played a less prominent role. Neighborhoods of color surrounding urban campuses are left most vulnerable to the for-profit developments of higher education, because the land is cheap and the citizens hold little political influence. This essay examines the long-standing relatio…
Black Belts and Ivory Towers
Using the University of Chicago as a case study, this essay examines the racial foundations of sociological thought during the discipline's rising academic legitimacy and cultural authority, in the first half of the 20 th century. Much more than critical hindsight, the basic theories and methods developed by the “Chicago School” and Robert Park in particular did not just construct racial categories, but were constructed by national anxieties abou…
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Journal Article The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism Get access The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. By Knupfer Anne Meis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn0-252-03047-8. Paper, $20.00, isbn0-252-07293-6.) Davarian L. Baldwin Davarian L. Baldwin Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Out from the Shadow of E. Franklin Frazier
Black Belts and Ivory Towers
Using the University of Chicago as a case study, this essay examines the racial foundations of sociological thought during the discipline's rising academic legitimacy and cultural authority, in the first half of the 20 th century. Much more than critical hindsight, the basic theories and methods developed by the “Chicago School” and Robert Park in particular did not just construct racial categories, but were constructed by national anxieties abou…
Introductory Comment
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Journal Article The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism Get access The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. By Knupfer Anne Meis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn0-252-03047-8. Paper, $20.00, isbn0-252-07293-6.) Davarian L. Baldwin Davarian L. Baldwin Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Emancipation's Diaspora
Not since Leslie Harris’s In the Shadow of Slavery (2003) has a historian examined the story of slavery, Civil War, and freedom above the Mason Dixon line with such productive results. In Emancipation's Diaspora Leslie A. Schwalm draws our attention to perhaps the most unlikely place for discussing the changing meanings of race and freedom in the Reconstruction era: the upper midwestern states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. This region is per…
Escape from New York
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance. What is less known is how far afield of Harlem that renaissance flourished—how much the New Negro movement …
"The "800-Pound Gargoyle
Today colleges and universities are the dominant employers, real estate holders, policing agents, and educational and health care providers in major cities where they once played a less prominent role. Neighborhoods of color surrounding urban campuses are left most vulnerable to the for-profit developments of higher education, because the land is cheap and the citizens hold little political influence. This essay examines the long-standing relatio…
Landscapes of Hope
“Black Chicago” may well be the most-studied (some say over-studied) African-American community in the United States. The fascinating blend of environmental and cultural-history methods in Landscapes of Hope shines new and exciting light on the so-called Black Belt, forcing us to look again at what we thought we knew so well. In this work, McCammack’s deft attention to the making and imagining of “natural” and landscaped environments on Chicago’s…
Cities, Racialized Poverty, and Infrastructures of Possibility
This essay argues that the study of urban poverty is too often characterised by the disappearance of specific people and bodily politics from our analytic frames, rendering modes of life and politics illegible to scholars. We call for attention to the embodied politics of knowledge production, as neighbourhoods surrounding universities are exploited first as laboratories for poverty scholarship—exemplified in the relationship between the Chicago …
What Universities Can Be
One week before the 2025 presidential inauguration, a group of scholars met virtually and began a conversation about the multiple and overlapping crises in higher education, from austerity budgets and labor exploitation to the assault on DEI and police raids on pro-Palestinian encampments. In the intervening months—as the new administration further ramped up assaults on higher education—the group continued their conversation virtually and on the …
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