Robert Self
Biographic Data
| ID | 5415668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Self |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Self |
| SIGNATURE | SELF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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
Suleiman Osman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Journal Article Suleiman Osman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York. Get access Suleiman Osman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York.New York: Oxford University Press. 2011. Pp. x, 348. $29.95. Robert Self Robert Self Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
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…
Perception and Posture in Anglo-American Relations
Churchill's captivating vision of a 'special relationship' between the British Commonwealth and the United States, based on the supposedly 'fraternal association of the Englishspeaking peoples', has fascinated scholars of Anglo-American interaction.1 It survives in spite of evidence that suggests that, even at its wartime zenith, this was an 'ambiguous partnership' between 'allies of a kind' and even more evidence that in the period since 1945 it…
Invincible Cities, http
Howard Gillette, the director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, and the photographer Camilo José Vergara have collaborated on an interactive Web site entitled Invincible Cities. The site combines short essays by Vergara and an introductory essay on Camden, New Jersey, by Gillette with hundreds of Vergara's photographs. Vergara is interested in “documenting the evolution of the ghetto over time” in order to demonstrate that t…
The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era
Places of Their Own
Book Review| May 01 2005 Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Andrew Wiese Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 ix + 411 pp., $37.50 (cloth) Robert O. Self Robert O. Self Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 138–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-138 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
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…
Their Eyes Were Watching Harlem
Book Review| January 01 2001 Their Eyes Were Watching Harlem: The Renaissance and the Politics of Modernism New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars, William J. Maxwell.Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns against Black Militancy, 1919-1925, Theodore Kornweibel Jr. Robert Self Robert Self Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (2): 107–110. https://doi.o…
Writing Landscapes of Class, Power, and Racial Division
To Plan Our Liberation”
Baldwin's blunder
Journal Article Baldwin's Blunder: A Rejoinder to Smart on 1923 Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF London Guildhall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 140–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/7.1.140 Published: 01 January 1996
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board: The Rise and Fall of Non-Tariff Preference in Britain, 1924–1933 Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF London Guildhall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 153–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/5.2.153 Published: 01 January 1994
Conservative Reunion and the General Election of 1923
Journal Article Conservative Reunion and the General Election of 1923: A Reassessment Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF City of London Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 249–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.249 Published: 01 January 1992
Robert Self Replies
Robert Altman and the Theory of Authorship
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board: The Rise and Fall of Non-Tariff Preference in Britain, 1924–1933 Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF London Guildhall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 153–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/5.2.153 Published: 01 January 1994
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…
To Plan Our Liberation”
Perception and Posture in Anglo-American Relations
Churchill's captivating vision of a 'special relationship' between the British Commonwealth and the United States, based on the supposedly 'fraternal association of the Englishspeaking peoples', has fascinated scholars of Anglo-American interaction.1 It survives in spite of evidence that suggests that, even at its wartime zenith, this was an 'ambiguous partnership' between 'allies of a kind' and even more evidence that in the period since 1945 it…
Places of Their Own
Book Review| May 01 2005 Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Andrew Wiese Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 ix + 411 pp., $37.50 (cloth) Robert O. Self Robert O. Self Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 138–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-138 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
Conservative Reunion and the General Election of 1923
Journal Article Conservative Reunion and the General Election of 1923: A Reassessment Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF City of London Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 249–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.249 Published: 01 January 1992
Robert Altman and the Theory of Authorship
Robert Self Replies
Conservative Reunion and the General Election of 1923
Journal Article Conservative Reunion and the General Election of 1923: A Reassessment Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF City of London Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 249–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.249 Published: 01 January 1992
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board: The Rise and Fall of Non-Tariff Preference in Britain, 1924–1933 Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF London Guildhall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 153–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/5.2.153 Published: 01 January 1994
Baldwin's blunder
Journal Article Baldwin's Blunder: A Rejoinder to Smart on 1923 Get access ROBERT SELF ROBERT SELF London Guildhall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 140–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/7.1.140 Published: 01 January 1996
To Plan Our Liberation”
Their Eyes Were Watching Harlem
Book Review| January 01 2001 Their Eyes Were Watching Harlem: The Renaissance and the Politics of Modernism New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars, William J. Maxwell.Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns against Black Militancy, 1919-1925, Theodore Kornweibel Jr. Robert Self Robert Self Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (2): 107–110. https://doi.o…
Writing Landscapes of Class, Power, and Racial Division
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…
Places of Their Own
Book Review| May 01 2005 Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Andrew Wiese Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 ix + 411 pp., $37.50 (cloth) Robert O. Self Robert O. Self Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 138–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-138 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era
Perception and Posture in Anglo-American Relations
Churchill's captivating vision of a 'special relationship' between the British Commonwealth and the United States, based on the supposedly 'fraternal association of the Englishspeaking peoples', has fascinated scholars of Anglo-American interaction.1 It survives in spite of evidence that suggests that, even at its wartime zenith, this was an 'ambiguous partnership' between 'allies of a kind' and even more evidence that in the period since 1945 it…
Invincible Cities, http
Howard Gillette, the director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, and the photographer Camilo José Vergara have collaborated on an interactive Web site entitled Invincible Cities. The site combines short essays by Vergara and an introductory essay on Camden, New Jersey, by Gillette with hundreds of Vergara's photographs. Vergara is interested in “documenting the evolution of the ghetto over time” in order to demonstrate that t…
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…
Suleiman Osman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Journal Article Suleiman Osman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York. Get access Suleiman Osman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York.New York: Oxford University Press. 2011. Pp. x, 348. $29.95. Robert Self Robert Self Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
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…
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