A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in Syracuse

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151 Index abandoned housing, 95, 111–14, 112, 114 abolition, 29 African American fathers, 102–3, 120–23 African American mothers: lived experiences of, 3–4; “motherwork” and, 98–100, 102; othermothering, 102; “witnessing” and, 77 African Diaspora, 133 agency, 7, 48, 86, 129, 130–31, 132; personal control and, 84, 109–10 aimlessness, youth and, 76 AJ Wright (store), 16 All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community (Stack), 103 Almond Street, 39 Andrews, Ralph, 36 Angel, Bradley, 123–24 anomie (rootlessness), 50 Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Inc., 43–45 avoidance, 50–51, 75, 79 Baker Playground, 52, 57, 59, 61 Barbara (participant), 9, 14, 17, 18, 52 bearing witness, importance of, 2, 3, 4–6, 9 Bellevue Avenue, 70–71; mapping results, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 28 Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence (Jones), 50–51, 109 Bevc, Christine, 79 Billie (participant), 9, 14, 75, 125; about, 18; comments by, 63, 67, 71, 73; mapping project, 52, 53; photos taken by, 98, 101, 103, 111 Billings Park, 55 Bishop Avenue, 57 Black feminism, 3–10, 120; conventional feminism and, 4–7, 86, 98–99, 132–33; critiques of, 6–7; environmental justice and, 3–6; geopolitical framework within, 6–10; importance of bearing witness, 2, 3, 4–6, 9; intersectionality and personal narrative, 4–6; Photovoice and, 83, 86–87, 89, 132; principles of, 86; transnational feminism, 6–7 Black Power movement, 129–30 Blaine Street, 59 Borden Avenue, 54, 59, 70 Boston, 103–4 Boys and Girls Club, 70 Page numbers in italics refer to photographs or illustrative material. 152 | Index “Bricks, The” (Pioneer Homes Public Housing), 35, 36–40, 39, 67, 73, 135 Brighton Avenue, 70, 73 Brodsky, Anne, 109 Brown, Diane R., 4, 80–81, 134 Brown, H. Rap, 130 Bruce, Marino, 109–10 built environment, 91, 93, 94, 104, 111–17; abandoned housing, 95, 111–14, 112, 114 Burris, Mary Ann, 83–84, 85, 86 Burt Street, 67, 68; mapping results, 56, 57, 58–59, 61, 63, 71 Bush (H. W.) administration, 123 business and commerce, 16, 73, 78, 114– 17, 116, 135. See also specific business Butler, Octavia, 133 Campbell, Alan K., 42 Cannon Street Park, 56 Cantor, Nancy, 16, 113 Carmichael, Stokely, 130 cartography and mapping, critical, 27, 134–35; critical community mapping, 7–10, 48, 49, 131–32; redlining, 31–35, 32, 128. See also Syracuse Community Mapping and Health Photovoice Project Castle and State Park, 52, 57, 59, 66 Catholic Charities of Onondaga County, 71 Central Village Youth Center, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 67, 69 Chicago, 26, 102–3 Chicago School of Sociology, 25 children and youth, 94–100, 120–23; aimlessness and, 76; effects of violence on girls, 50–51; kinship networks , 95, 102–3; “motherwork” and, 98–100, 102; othermothering, 102; reports and studies, 49; role models and, 100; safety of, 74–76, 115–17; as “witnesses,” 77 China, 83 churches, importance of, 104–11 Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (CANT), 23–24, 46 civil rights movement, 41–42, 110, 128–30, 132 CJ (participant), 9, 15–16, 52, 125; photos taken by, 96, 110 class(ism), 80, 127, 132, 133–34; Black feminist approach to, 4–6, 86, 89; construction of I-81 and, 43; housing and, 31; motherwork and, 98–99; othermothering and, 102; racialized space and, 45–46, 86–87; reports and studies, 3, 78–70, 83 Clean Water Act (1972), 43–45 Cleaver, Eldridge, 130 Clemmons, Henry, 44 Clinton, William J., 2 Collins, Patricia Hill, 4, 98–99, 102, 134 Columbus, Christopher, 27 Colvin Street, 54, 56, 57, 61 Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO), 43 Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ (UCC), 3 communal separatism, 130 community-based participatory action research (CBPAR), 107 Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), 125 Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), 2 community mapping, 7–10, 48, 49, 131–32. See also Syracuse Community Mapping and Health Photovoice Project Index | 153 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 46, 129 containment, 134 control, personal, 84, 109–10. See also agency Coolidge Avenue, 54, 71 Cortland Avenue, 57, 59, 61 covenants, restrictive, 26, 29 Crampton, Jeremy W., 27 Crenshaw, Kimberly, 132 crime and violence, 20–22, 63–66, 92; accountability and, 75; aimlessness and, 76; business and commercial centers and, 114–17, 116; crime-police relations, 78; daily threats of, 76–81; effects on girls...