Add to ORKGAbstract ■ This article examines New York City’s war on graffiti from 1970 until the present and the ways in which the city’s reaction to the popular youth practice was largely shaped by the neoliberal restructuring process occurring throughout the same period. It explores the racialization and criminalization of the youth who practiced graffiti, and the ways in which this process manifested itself as a contestation over the use of urban space. Finally, it explores the practice of graffiti and the role of cultural practices more generally in relation to an anti-racist discourse. Keywords ■ criminalization ■ neoliberal restructuring ■ poverty ■ race ■ urban space ■ youth Maybe if this art was not from a ghetto, there would be a different app...
Graffiti is a paradoxical form of social expression: it is widely disparaged in its tagging avatar, ...
San Francisco, like many cities in the United States and across the world, has an official zero-tole...
At the pinnacle of urban crisis that had ravaged cities across America, from the 1950s to the 1970s,...
Abstract. This paper is an examination of the reactions to graffiti in New York during the early 197...
Young people involved in graffiti have become emblematic of the ongoing troubling presence of “youth...
On July 1st, 1971 The New York Times ran a story titled “Taki 183 Spawns Pen Pals.” It discusses ear...
This article analyzes the spontaneous production of graffiti art and murals covering the entrances o...
This study critically examined the racial, spatial, gender, and class dimensions of expressive cultu...
Drawing on 4 years of fieldwork inside the Denver, Colorado, graffiti underground and on research in...
In a losing battle against street artists, “Make your mark in society, not on society” was the state...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019This work explores radical forms of participation in u...
This thesis provides an analysis of the New York Style letter-based, signature graffiti subcultures ...
In this article, I explain why graffiti was established almost immediately as a legitimate art form;...
Graffiti has its roots in urban youth and protest cultures. However, in the past decades it has beco...
The vertical surfaces of cities are archives of urban identities, and contested terrains of occupati...
Graffiti is a paradoxical form of social expression: it is widely disparaged in its tagging avatar, ...
San Francisco, like many cities in the United States and across the world, has an official zero-tole...
At the pinnacle of urban crisis that had ravaged cities across America, from the 1950s to the 1970s,...
Abstract. This paper is an examination of the reactions to graffiti in New York during the early 197...
Young people involved in graffiti have become emblematic of the ongoing troubling presence of “youth...
On July 1st, 1971 The New York Times ran a story titled “Taki 183 Spawns Pen Pals.” It discusses ear...
This article analyzes the spontaneous production of graffiti art and murals covering the entrances o...
This study critically examined the racial, spatial, gender, and class dimensions of expressive cultu...
Drawing on 4 years of fieldwork inside the Denver, Colorado, graffiti underground and on research in...
In a losing battle against street artists, “Make your mark in society, not on society” was the state...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019This work explores radical forms of participation in u...
This thesis provides an analysis of the New York Style letter-based, signature graffiti subcultures ...
In this article, I explain why graffiti was established almost immediately as a legitimate art form;...
Graffiti has its roots in urban youth and protest cultures. However, in the past decades it has beco...
The vertical surfaces of cities are archives of urban identities, and contested terrains of occupati...
Graffiti is a paradoxical form of social expression: it is widely disparaged in its tagging avatar, ...
San Francisco, like many cities in the United States and across the world, has an official zero-tole...
At the pinnacle of urban crisis that had ravaged cities across America, from the 1950s to the 1970s,...