Ce mémoire vise à présenter une facette encore méconnue des relations interraciales entretenues entre les Japonais-Américains et les Afro-Américains à New York au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cette étude est novatrice en ce sens qu'elle permettra une meilleure compréhension des enjeux interraciaux qui ont eu cours à cette époque entre Japonais-Américains et Afro-Américains à New York. Plusieurs recherches ont déjà mis en relief les différents débats propres à ces deux communautés, mais aucune n'a proposé une observation de leur possible coopération lors de cette époque et ce lieu précis en s'appuyant sur les sources que nous proposons. Ayant comme sources primaires les articles des journaux communautaires, notre recherche nous permet de mieux comprendre ce qui compte aux yeux des Japonais-Américains de New York, leurs soucis et tergiversations concernant la quête de droits civiques et s'ils se joignent ou non au combat mené par la communauté Afro-Américaine. C'est suite au dépouillement exhaustif d'articles tirés de la presse communautaire Nisei que nous croyons pouvoir apporter un aspect encore inexploré de l'étude de la minorité japonaise-américaine dans ses rapports avec la minorité afro-américaine. Nos sources primaires se composent de deux journaux new-yorkais qui se succèdent dans le temps. Il s'agit du JACD Newsletter jusqu'en 1948, suivit du Hokubei Shimpo jusqu'à la promulgation du Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discriminés et enfermés au moment de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, nous soutenons que lors de la période historique retenue, les Nisei de New York se sont progressivement éloignés de la lutte pour les droits civiques. ______________________________________________________________________________

The Museum of Modern Art's television project sponsored by the Rockefeller Brother's Fund between 1952 and 1955 was designed to educate a democratic and cultured citizenry through the principles and practices of modern art and liberal humanism. Through a close reading of four television programs, related policy documents and exhibitions, as well as critical, educational and promotional literature, this study will show how within the context of the MoMA's mandate and history, the television project was a decisive, yet highly troubled attempt to forge cultural citizenship through the burgeoning media of modern art and television. This exploration will establish how the television project was an integral aspect of the MoMA's efforts since World War II to situate modern art as essential to the formation of an international polity shaped around the promise of universality, yet dependent on upholding the primacy of free and creative individuals. In addressing such a challenge, this dissertation will contend that television was not necessarily antithetical to modernism, rather it was just one among an array of struggling forces falling within the rubric of the modern. Moreover, this analysis will consider the importance of culture in logics of liberal governance. In order to elucidate the dimensions of cultural democracy as they emerged through the MoMA's television project, this study will be shaped around a discussion of three components crucial to the formation and maintenance of citizenly conduct---civic education, democratic cultural communications, and cross-cultural governance. To these ends, a range of sources from the disciplines of Communications, Cultural Studies and Critical Artistic Studies will be drawn on in order to investigate the provisional links forged between modern art, media pedagogy, and cultural citizenship in the Cold War period.

The strict divisions of city spaces created by physical urban planning disintegrated under transformations of capitalism and its accompanying crises of overaccumulation, social urban planning was elaborated to more effectively control the capitalist city and to reintegrate the increasingly blighted areas of the once popular amusements into the economy. / This disciplined reintegration, unsuccessfully attempted in New York City's Times Square since the late 1920s. is finally being realized by the redevelopment forces that began shaping the city's spatial practices in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 1975. The development projects undertaken in midtown Manhattan following the recovery from the fiscal crisis are transforming the renowned Times Square theater district into a strikingly different urban environment. The new politics of redevelopment under the regime of flexible accumulation are almost exclusively oriented towards economic development that is equated with speculative property investments, rebuilding Times Square to promote the global city's finance monopoly. Denying the existence of the public realm and celebrating free market laissez-faire policy, the 42nd Street Development Project, under the guise of removing blight, is eliminating the undesirable and underprivileged from the new image of the Bright Lights District. Times Square as a center of the local popular culture of Broadway theaters, cinemas, restaurants, billboard spectaculars, and public celebrations, has been lost as a public space. In the redevelopment projects now imaging the Crossroads of the World, the lost city of the past is recreated through the commodification of its collective memory, fashioning a Disneyfied spectacle for the global urban center. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

This study examines the reuse potential of industrial land and infrastructure left abandoned or otherwise underutilized. The goal of this study is to open discussion and dialogue into such cases in North American cities that currently are liabilities and offer guidelines and methods for approaching preservation and reuse of such properties in a manner that contributes to community health, safety and welfare while maintaining historical character and significance.Abandoned or underutilized industrial land and infrastructure often pose significant environmental, safety, and land-use liability issues for municipalities. The application of creative reuse ideas centered on the notion of preserving industrial character, while creating new housing and recreation options for citizens is a major opportunity for communities struggling to cope with the negative aspects of these properties.The design project portion of this study was performed as part of an `ideas competition' conducted in 2003 by the `Friends of The High Line,' a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving a 1.5 mile stretch of abandoned, elevated rail bed in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan Borough, New York City. / Department of Architecture

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-260).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-260).

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-73).

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Diss., 2006.

Thesis (D.P.H.)--University of Michigan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 315-339). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.