| FT-53480-05 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Josh Sides | History of U.S. Urban Vice Districts, 1960's and 1970's | 6/1/2005 - 8/31/2005 | $5,000.00 | Josh | | Sides | | | | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | Pomona | CA | 91768-2557 | USA | 2005 | U.S. History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
In his bestselling 1963 novel CITY OF NIGHT, American writer and part time street-hustler John Rechy described the gritty metropolitan world in which he lived and worked: "Later," he wrote, "I would think of America as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard --jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its darkcities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness." My current book project, EROTIC CITY: SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS, is a history of those "darkcities" Rechy described. It is unique in its methodology, its findings, and its interdisciplinarity, and will be, I believe, an important contribution to the fields of American studies, the history of sexuality, and urban history. |