[Grad_history_students] Hon-oring the Past: Gendering Gentrification in Baltimore: Thursday, May 5 (12-1)

[Tyson, Amy]

Greetings!

Beehive hairdos? Kitsch? Baltimore? Nostalgia? Heritage? Gender? Gentrification?  Find out what these things have in common

When: TOMORROW: Thursday, May 5 from 12-1,
Where: Richardson Library Room 400.
What: The description Dr. Mary Rizzo's talk is below.  

Students welcome; flyer attached. Food will be served (including rice krispy treats for that touch of kitsch).  

See you there.

Prof. Amy Tyson 
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Hon-oring the Past: Gendering Gentrification in Baltimore

Dr. Mary Rizzo, Associate Director, New Jersey Council of Humanities

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011

Time: Noon-1PM

Location: Lincoln Park Campus, John T. Richardson Library, Room 400 (Dorothy Day Room)

Baltimore's annual HonFest centers on a local icon, the Hon, a white working-class woman of the 1950s best known for her beehive hairdo, tacky clothes and thick accent. Located in a gentrifying neighborhood, HonFest has been criticized as mocking the workingclass culture being displaced and for obscuring longstanding racial tensions. However, some Baltimore women have adopted the Hon as their heritage. In this talk Mary Rizzo shows how they use HonFest to publicly honor white working-class women's history in Baltimore through playing with their identity. While their activities at HonFest are predicated on gentrification, their constructed identities as Hons open a space for critique.

Sponsored by History, Geography, and Women and Gender Studies.

Contact Professor Amy Tyson at proftyson at gmail.com for more information.




















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