Jerome Krase
Biographic Data
| ID | 640452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Krase |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Krase |
| SIGNATURE | KRASE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3738-631X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health Anthropological Perspectives edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato. Palgrave Macmillan 2024
Contrasting Lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Scholar-activists like me and Judith N. DeSena, have spent most of their academic careers attempting to bring the problems of the less advantaged in society to the fore with the hope that by doing
Terrorism and an Autoethnography of 9/11
Most students of the subject of terrorism are greatly informed by the literature about the diverse causes and impacts of terrorism that is generally described as premeditated politically or ideologically motivated violent acts intended to instill fear in the civilian population to engender political or social change. These studies however, whether historical or theoretical, deal with terrorism at the societal level and provide limited insights in…
Stories, Streets, and Saints
Given that Stories, Streets, and Saints begins with a deeply moving “In Memory of My Friend Anthony Riccio 1952–2022,” by Tommy Damigella, and ends with an equally heartfelt epilogue titled “Anthony's Gift to Us,” by James S. Pasto, it is only fitting to add my own fond memories of an old friend and fellow Italophilic scholar. I have read and reviewed several of Anthony's books, including From Italy to the North End: Photographs, from 1972–1982 (…
Seeing Footprints of Polonia
I am a visually oriented social scientist whose primary focus is on ethnicity and urban society and for whom Poland and Polonia have been important subjects. Therefore, the first question that arose when I received for review Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites Across North America, which I read as an updated and revised Polish Heritage and Travel Guide to U.S.A. and Canada, was, “Should this book be deposited on my library shelf or on…
Urban vernacular landscapes
Although many social scientists employ visual media in their research and teaching, the connection between the ‘visual’ and the ‘social science’ is often tenuous. Photographs often are reserved for illustrating textual concepts, or making standard findings more interesting to readers than the normal textual exposition in tables, pie charts, graphs, or other methods of data visualization. In my research about urban lives and cultures, I have exten…
Story-Making and Photography
It can be argued that migrants express their own agency, via spatial practices, to change the meanings of the spaces and places they occupy and use. Although they are not the most powerful agents in our glocalized world, they nevertheless sometimes consciously and more often unconsciously, compete with others to visually define their micro-worlds for themselves and, therefore, for more powerful others as well (Krase & Shortell, 2015). Of course, …
America’s Last Little Italy
Theme Parks
When most people hear the phrase “theme park” they envision a place where large numbers of people choose to gather to indulge themselves by following their own desires and interests. For them, a theme park is a happy place that maximizes individual freedom. English‐language dictionaries define “theme parks” rather simply as amusement parks that are organized around a single or central idea. The structures and settings as well as the rides and oth…
How the other half looks
How the other half looks: the Lower East Side and the afterlives of images." Visual Studies, 35(1), pp. 91–92
Seeing Greenpoint Virtually and Actually Change
Most studies of socioeconomic changes in urban neighborhoods in America rely on analyses of the demographic characteristics of local residents as reported in the decennial United States Census. This visually enhanced article looks at such transitions as reflected in the vernacular landscapes of local shopping streets as well as how changes in the ethnic and class “character” of the neighborhood are presented in the mass and electronic media. The …
The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography
A Personal Reflection on White Ethnic Sociology
Research Article| October 01 2017 A Personal Reflection on White Ethnic Sociology Jerome Krase Jerome Krase Jerome Krase, emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College CUNY, is an activist-scholar regarding intergroup relations and other urban community issues. He researches and photographs about urban life and culture globally. His books include Self and Community in the City (1982); Ethnicity and Machine Politics, with Charles LaC…
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies used to resist and promote neighborhood change and conclude with an …
Seeing residential (im)mobilities in New York City
This chapter discusses and visually demonstrates how ethnicity and class affect residential (im)mobility and how that in turn affects the lives of local residents. It draws on decades long study of New York City's neighbourhoods focused on inter-class and inter-ethnic conflict and competition visible in vernacular landscapes [Krase, J. (2012) Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate; Krase, J. & Shortell, T. (2012) ‘O…
L’ethnographie, ou comment combler l’écart entre le qualitatif et le quantitatif
Ethnography
This analytic autoethnographic and autobiographical essay addresses several interrelated questions regarding the use of ethnographic and otherwise 'qualitative' research methods in the study of contemporary urban society. The testy relationship between qualitative and quantitative research has historical as well as logico-deductive roots that continue to haunt the social sciences. As to hermeneutics, the debate parallels my academic career journe…
Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants are deed restrictions on particular kinds of real estate. For example, they may restrict use of a subdivision of land to residential purposes only and define the maximum and minimum square footage of homes to be built. They might also place restrictions regarding construction of other kinds of buildings on the property, as well as control activities that take place within its boundaries, such as rentals. In the United States…
Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants are deed restrictions on particular kinds of real estate. For example, they may restrict use of land in a subdivision to residential purposes only and define the maximum and minimum square footage of homes to be built. They might also place restrictions regarding construction of other buildings on the property, as well as control activities that take place within its boundaries, such as rentals. Real estate professionals arg…
Migration and Human Rights
On the Spatial Semiotics of Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities
Ordinary people living ordinary lives inhabit meaningful spaces; in globalized urban environments, these spaces are vernacular landscapes. Urban spaces are also subject to the effects of social inequality. Class, racial/ethnic, religion, and citizenship hierarchies mark urban territories with differential meanings. Spatial semiotic analysis makes it possible to see even the most powerless of urban dwellers as social agents in the local reproducti…
The American Italian Historical Association
Research Article| April 01 2008 The American Italian Historical Association: A View from the Bridge Jerome Krase Jerome Krase Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2008) 65 (1): 23–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148789 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jerome Krase; The American Italian Historical Association: A View from the Bridge. Polis…
Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants are deed restrictions on particular kinds of real estate. For example, they may restrict use of land in a subdivision to residential purposes only and define the maximum and minimum square footage of homes to be built. They might also place restrictions regarding construction of other buildings on the property, as well as control activities that take place within its boundaries, such as rentals. Real estate professionals arg…
Visualisation du changement urbain
Cet essai vise à démontrer que la sociologie visuelle des paysages vernaculaires peut être utilisée pour documenter et analyser la manière dont un environnement défini, par exemple un quartier, reflète l’action de ses résidents. Il suggère que les méthodes visuelles, complétées par des approches symboliques ou sémiotiques, peuvent construire un pont entre les diverses disciplines théoriques et appliquées qui se concentrent sur la forme et la fonc…
Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little Italy
This illustrated paper is the latest in a long series based on visual sociological research which I have conducted about how the meanings of neighbourhood spaces are changed by the agency of even the least of their inhabitants. Specifically, it attempts to demonstrate how the Italian-American character, or version of Italianness (Italianità), of four of New York City's most well-known Little Italies (Mulberry Street and East Harlem in Manhattan, …
On the Spatial Semiotics of Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities
Ordinary people living ordinary lives inhabit meaningful spaces; in globalized urban environments, these spaces are vernacular landscapes. Urban spaces are also subject to the effects of social inequality. Class, racial/ethnic, religion, and citizenship hierarchies mark urban territories with differential meanings. Spatial semiotic analysis makes it possible to see even the most powerless of urban dwellers as social agents in the local reproducti…
Urban vernacular landscapes
Although many social scientists employ visual media in their research and teaching, the connection between the ‘visual’ and the ‘social science’ is often tenuous. Photographs often are reserved for illustrating textual concepts, or making standard findings more interesting to readers than the normal textual exposition in tables, pie charts, graphs, or other methods of data visualization. In my research about urban lives and cultures, I have exten…
How the other half looks
How the other half looks: the Lower East Side and the afterlives of images." Visual Studies, 35(1), pp. 91–92
Community, Morality, and the Inner City Neighborhood
Reactions to the Stigmata of Inner City Living
This paper discusses the problem of living in a stigmatized inner city community. The reactions of residents are categorized into "Four Moral Careers", and implications for the community of each career are discussed. Major attention is focused upon the "activist" career which aims to overcome the stigma of the community. The activists are discussed and described through the use df materials from intensive interviews of local community leaders who…
Ethnography
This analytic autoethnographic and autobiographical essay addresses several interrelated questions regarding the use of ethnographic and otherwise 'qualitative' research methods in the study of contemporary urban society. The testy relationship between qualitative and quantitative research has historical as well as logico-deductive roots that continue to haunt the social sciences. As to hermeneutics, the debate parallels my academic career journe…
Visualisation du changement urbain
Cet essai vise à démontrer que la sociologie visuelle des paysages vernaculaires peut être utilisée pour documenter et analyser la manière dont un environnement défini, par exemple un quartier, reflète l’action de ses résidents. Il suggère que les méthodes visuelles, complétées par des approches symboliques ou sémiotiques, peuvent construire un pont entre les diverses disciplines théoriques et appliquées qui se concentrent sur la forme et la fonc…
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Reactions to the Stigmata of Inner City Living
This paper discusses the problem of living in a stigmatized inner city community. The reactions of residents are categorized into "Four Moral Careers", and implications for the community of each career are discussed. Major attention is focused upon the "activist" career which aims to overcome the stigma of the community. The activists are discussed and described through the use df materials from intensive interviews of local community leaders who…
The Golden Door
Community, Morality, and the Inner City Neighborhood
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Strangers to These Shores
Each chapter concludes with Retrospect, Key Terms, Review Questions, and Suggested Readings. Foreword by Ruben Rumbaut. Preface. I.SOCIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK. 1.The Study of Minorities. The Stranger as a Social Phenomenon. A Sociological Perspective. Minority Groups. Racial and Ethnic Groups. Ethnocentrism. Objectivity. The Dillingham Flaw. Personal Troubles and Public Issues. The Dynamics of Intergroup Relations. 2.Culture and Social Structure. The …
From Immigrants to Ethnics
The Humanity of Cities
Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society
Little Italies e New Deal
Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little Italy
This illustrated paper is the latest in a long series based on visual sociological research which I have conducted about how the meanings of neighbourhood spaces are changed by the agency of even the least of their inhabitants. Specifically, it attempts to demonstrate how the Italian-American character, or version of Italianness (Italianità), of four of New York City's most well-known Little Italies (Mulberry Street and East Harlem in Manhattan, …
Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants are deed restrictions on particular kinds of real estate. For example, they may restrict use of land in a subdivision to residential purposes only and define the maximum and minimum square footage of homes to be built. They might also place restrictions regarding construction of other buildings on the property, as well as control activities that take place within its boundaries, such as rentals. Real estate professionals arg…
Visualisation du changement urbain
Cet essai vise à démontrer que la sociologie visuelle des paysages vernaculaires peut être utilisée pour documenter et analyser la manière dont un environnement défini, par exemple un quartier, reflète l’action de ses résidents. Il suggère que les méthodes visuelles, complétées par des approches symboliques ou sémiotiques, peuvent construire un pont entre les diverses disciplines théoriques et appliquées qui se concentrent sur la forme et la fonc…
The American Italian Historical Association
Research Article| April 01 2008 The American Italian Historical Association: A View from the Bridge Jerome Krase Jerome Krase Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2008) 65 (1): 23–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148789 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jerome Krase; The American Italian Historical Association: A View from the Bridge. Polis…
On the Spatial Semiotics of Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities
Ordinary people living ordinary lives inhabit meaningful spaces; in globalized urban environments, these spaces are vernacular landscapes. Urban spaces are also subject to the effects of social inequality. Class, racial/ethnic, religion, and citizenship hierarchies mark urban territories with differential meanings. Spatial semiotic analysis makes it possible to see even the most powerless of urban dwellers as social agents in the local reproducti…
Migration and Human Rights
Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants are deed restrictions on particular kinds of real estate. For example, they may restrict use of a subdivision of land to residential purposes only and define the maximum and minimum square footage of homes to be built. They might also place restrictions regarding construction of other kinds of buildings on the property, as well as control activities that take place within its boundaries, such as rentals. In the United States…
Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants are deed restrictions on particular kinds of real estate. For example, they may restrict use of land in a subdivision to residential purposes only and define the maximum and minimum square footage of homes to be built. They might also place restrictions regarding construction of other buildings on the property, as well as control activities that take place within its boundaries, such as rentals. Real estate professionals arg…
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies used to resist and promote neighborhood change and conclude with an …
Seeing residential (im)mobilities in New York City
This chapter discusses and visually demonstrates how ethnicity and class affect residential (im)mobility and how that in turn affects the lives of local residents. It draws on decades long study of New York City's neighbourhoods focused on inter-class and inter-ethnic conflict and competition visible in vernacular landscapes [Krase, J. (2012) Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate; Krase, J. & Shortell, T. (2012) ‘O…
L’ethnographie, ou comment combler l’écart entre le qualitatif et le quantitatif
Ethnography
This analytic autoethnographic and autobiographical essay addresses several interrelated questions regarding the use of ethnographic and otherwise 'qualitative' research methods in the study of contemporary urban society. The testy relationship between qualitative and quantitative research has historical as well as logico-deductive roots that continue to haunt the social sciences. As to hermeneutics, the debate parallels my academic career journe…
A Personal Reflection on White Ethnic Sociology
Research Article| October 01 2017 A Personal Reflection on White Ethnic Sociology Jerome Krase Jerome Krase Jerome Krase, emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College CUNY, is an activist-scholar regarding intergroup relations and other urban community issues. He researches and photographs about urban life and culture globally. His books include Self and Community in the City (1982); Ethnicity and Machine Politics, with Charles LaC…
The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography
Theme Parks
When most people hear the phrase “theme park” they envision a place where large numbers of people choose to gather to indulge themselves by following their own desires and interests. For them, a theme park is a happy place that maximizes individual freedom. English‐language dictionaries define “theme parks” rather simply as amusement parks that are organized around a single or central idea. The structures and settings as well as the rides and oth…
How the other half looks
How the other half looks: the Lower East Side and the afterlives of images." Visual Studies, 35(1), pp. 91–92
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