Some notes I took long ago...

In case I'm missing some of this information here, I figured I might as well list it here:


Journal of Urban History, Vol. 32, No. 1, 152-159 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0096144205279758
© 2005 SAGE Publications
We are All New Yorkers Now
—Christopher M. Finan
Mariellen R Sandford (1987)
Tourism in Harlem: Between Negative Sightseeing and Gentrification The Journal of American Culture 10 (2), 99–105.
Memory as Identity: The Invention of the Lower East Side Journal article by Beth S. Wenger; American Jewish History, Vol. 85, 1997
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Mumford's Interzones
Catherine Cock's, Doing the Town
The Slum: A Project for Study
Nels Anderson
Social Forces, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Sep., 1928), pp. 87-90 doi:10.2307/3004551 This article consists of 4 page(s).
Haenni, Sabine
Visual and Theatrical Culture, Tenement Fiction, and the Immigrant Subject in Abraham Cahan's Yekl American Literature - Volume 71, Number 3, September 1999, pp. 493-527
Duke University Press
American Literature 71.3 (1999) 493-527 _________________________________________________________________ Visual and Theatrical Culture, Tenement Fiction, and the Immigrant Subject in Abraham Cahan's Yekl Sabine Haenni * Figures I am an ardent collector of slums. I have missed art galleries and palaces and theatres and cathedrals (cathedrals particularly) in various and sundry cities, but I don't think I ever missed a slum.--H. C. Bunner, "The Bowery and Bohemia" (1894) I had become as infatuated with the Ghetto as eastern boys were with the wild west.--Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931) In comparing his infatuation with the ghetto to a boyish enthusiasm for the Wild West, Lincoln Steffens imagines the immigrant ghetto as a site potentially outside the social control of the American cosmopolis, a site where grown men can engage in exciting and potentially dangerous games. Steffens's account, familiar from previous decades, recirculates an image of the ghetto proletariat as "savage," but his comment must also be understood in the context of the 1890s, a time when the Wild West had become a site of re-creation in all senses of the word (not least because the frontier was officially closed), evoking cultural phenomena ranging from the later Buffalo Bill shows to the emerging Boy Scout movement, all of which were part of a "wilderness cult" that imagined the West as a place of "endless adventure, play, and freedom."^1 For H. C. Bunner, the slums do not evoke a residual, playful, and specifically American savagery but instead replace the monuments of Western civilization--from palaces to art galleries. His comment reflects the explosion of public leisure [End Page 493] consumption in the late nineteenth century, when the "new" middle class embraced respectable vaudeville and other formerly disreputable amusements. But even as Bunner...

The Wretches of Povertyville: A Sociological Study of the Bowery By Ignatz Leo Nascher
Alas! What Brought Thee Hither?: The Chinese in New York, 1800-1950 By Arthur Bonner