A People's Guide to Greater Boston
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About the Book

A People's Guide to Greater Boston reveals the region’s richness and vibrancy in ways that are neglected by traditional area guidebooks and obscured by many tourist destinations. Affirming the hopes, interests, and struggles of individuals and groups on the receiving end of unjust forms of power, the book showcases the ground-level forces shaping the city. Uncovering stories and places central to people’s lives over centuries, this guide takes readers to sites of oppression, resistance, organizing, and transformation in Boston and outlying neighborhoods and municipalities—from Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. It highlights tales of the places and people involved in movements to abolish slavery; to end war and militarism; to achieve Native sovereignty, racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation; and to secure workers’ rights. In so doing, this one-of-a-kind guide points the way to a radically democratic Greater Boston, one that sparks social and environmental justice and inclusivity for all.  

Table of Contents:
List of Maps INTRODUCTION: UNSETTLING GREATER BOSTON 1 BOSTON’S HISTORIC CORE Boston Harbor    Deer Island |  Griffi n Wharf |  Rainsford Island Hospital |  Central    Wharf/James and Thomas H. Perkins and Company |  Long Wharf/Boston    Fruit Company |  Fort Strong, Long Island |  Nixes Mate Shawmut Peninsula DOWNTOWN BOSTON    The Boston Common |  Anne Hutchinson House Site |  Odeon Theatre    |  Liberty Square |  Marlboro Hotel and Chapel |  Boston Court House |    American House/John F. Kennedy Federal Building |    John P. Jewett and Company |  Daily Evening Voice | Exchange    Place/Boston Bellamy Club/Immigration Restriction League |  Faneuil Hall |    Dewey Square |  The Parker House |  United Fruit Company |    Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company/The Vault |    Gay Community News THE NORTH END AND THE WEST END    Onesimus-Mather House | Cooper Street Armory | Parmenter Street Chapel |    Great Molasses Flood Site |  The West End Museum BEACON HILL    James Bowdoin Home Site |  David Walker Home | Abiel    Smith School/Museum of African American History |  Julia Ward Howe    Residence |  Henry Cabot Lodge House CHINATOWN/THE SOUTH COVE    Denison House |  1903 Immigration Raid Site |  New England    Telephone Company Exchange/Verizon Building |  The Common Cupboard |    The Naked i |  The Metropolitan/Parcel C South End    Tent City | Haley House |  Cathedral of the Holy Cross |    South End Press | Villa Victoria Center for the Arts |  Blackstone Square The Back Bay and the Fenway    The Newbry |  Armory of the First Corps of Cadets/The Castle |    The Youth’s Companion Building | The Rat | Fenway Park |    Marian Hall, Emmanuel College/Boston Women’s Health Book Collective |    Symphony Road Community Garden | College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston    | Massachusetts Competitive Partnership     2 OTHER CITY OF BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS Charlestown    Charlestown Navy Yard | City Square Park | Charlestown High School football field East Boston    Maverick Square | The East Boston Immigration Station/Navy Fuel Pier    Airport Edge Buffer | Boston Logan International Airport | Lewis Family Home |    Neptune Road Edge Buffer Park | Suffolk Downs South Boston    L Street Bathhouse/BCYF Curley Community Center | Police Station 6/    Patriot Homes | South Boston High School/Excel High School | South    Boston District Courthouse |  South Boston Heights Academy | Carson Beach |    South Boston Residents for Peace/Tony Flaherty Home |    Seaport Common Roxbury and Mission Hill    Saint Cyprian’s Episcopal Church and Toussaint L’Ouverture Hall |    Franklin Lynch Peoples’ Free Health Center |  Saint Mark’s Social    Center |  Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative |  Mission Main Dorchester, Mattapan, and Hyde Park    Camp Meigs Playground | The William Monroe Trotter House |    James Reeb House | Christopher Gibson School |  Boston    Welfare Department, Grove Hall Office/Mother Caroline Academy and Education    Center | Temple Beth Hillel | Laura Ann Ewing Home/Columbia    Point Housing Project |  Columbia Point Health Center/Geiger-Gibson    Health Center | US Armed Forces Recruiting Station and Dorchester District    Courthouse | The Boston Globe Headquarters | Combahee River    Collective | State Temple Church of God in Christ Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and West Roxbury    Brook Farm |  Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church |    Science for the People/Helen Keller Collective |  Southwest    Corridor Park |  City Life/Vida Urbana | Bikes Not Bombs (The Shop) |    William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute Allston and Brighton    Nonantum | Noah Worcester House | Barry’s Corner |    Saint John’s Seminary | Power-One Corporation Factory Site |    Binland Lee House     3 ADJACENT CITIES Cambridge and Somerville    Ten Hills Farm | Harvard Indian College/Matthew Hall |    Elmwood | Ursuline Convent | Riverside Cycling Club | Old    Mole/The Middle East and Zuzu Restaurant and Nightclub |  Polaroid/    Tech Square | 888/The Women’s Center | Sojourner: The Women’s    Forum | Dollars & Sense | Old Cambridge Baptist Church | Food Not Bombs |    The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard    University | Ray and Maria Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of    Technology | Harvard Square Public Toilet Chelsea and Everett    Chelsea Naval Hospital | Labor Lyceum | Chelsea Salt    Terminal | Exxon Mobil Everett Terminal     4 NORTH OF BOSTON Lowell    Wamesit | Saint Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church/    UTEC | The Voice of Industry and Middlesex Standard | Saint Patrick    Church | Socialist Hall Lawrence    Lawrence Experiment Station/Ferrous Site Park | American Woolen    Company |  Franco-Belgian Hall |  North Lawrence Railroad Station |    Jonas Smolskas House |  The Arlington Mills |  Schaake’s Block |    The Essex Company Headquarters Compound/Lawrence History Center |    Bread and Roses Housing | 1984 Riot Epicenter Haverhill    Grand Army of the Republic Park |  Old Haverhill City Hall Newburyport    William Lloyd Garrison House | Caleb Cushing Homes Salem    East India Marine Hall/Peabody Essex Museum | Lyceum Hall |    Pequot Mill/Shetland Industrial Park |  Proctor’s Ledge | The    Derby House |  North Shore Community Development Coalition/Punto    Urban Art Museum Lynn    Town Hall |  Kimball and Butterfield/The Awl |  Frederick Douglass    House | High Rock Tower Reservation | Lyceum Hall |  River    Works/General Electric | Lynn Woods Reservation     5 WEST AND SOUTH OF BOSTON Waltham    Walter E. Fernald State School | Raytheon Corporate Headquarters Concord    The Robbins House | Brister’s Hill | Concord Jail | MCIConcord/    The Concord Reformatory Plymouth and the South Shore    Cole’s Hill | Old Country House/1749 Court House |  Plimoth    Plantation | Maypole Hill Park |  Wessagusset Memorial Garden     6 THEMATIC TOURS Native Greater Boston Tour Malcolm and Martin Tour Sacco and Vanzetti Tour Bread and Roses and More Tour The One Percent of Greater Boston Tour The Nature of Greater Boston Tour Acknowledgments Bibliography Credits Index

About the Author :
Joseph Nevins was born and raised in the Dorchester section of Boston and is Professor of Geography at Vassar College. His books include A Not-so-distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor; Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid; and Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on "Illegals" and the Remaking of the US-Mexico Boundary. Suren Moodliar, a resident of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is both coordinator of encuentro5, a movement building space in Downtown Boston, and editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy. He coedited Noam Chomsky’s Internationalism or Extinction (2020). He completed an MA in Political Science and African Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Eleni Macrakis grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now works in the field of affordable housing development in the Greater Boston area. She holds a Master in Urban Planning from Harvard University.

Review :
“It’s a timely, intelligent, and necessary guide, one that deepens our understanding of where we live now and reminds us of the power that regular citizens have to work against powers and systems that are, now as then, in urgent need of change.” "A new kind of guidebook to Boston and surrounding towns . . . [that's] less Lonely Planet and more Howard Zinn. . . . Instead of giving an overview of the Freedom Trail and introducing readers to the hot restaurants and hotels of Boston, this guide uncovers the forgotten stories of radicals and activists hidden in every neighborhood and suburb."  "This book makes history intimate, showing how we must be constantly vigilant against every attempt at depriving us of a quality of life worth working for. Reading this book should inspire and hopefully empower. It does more than scratch the surface." "Think you know all about Boston? Think again. 3 local co-authors comb through centuries of Greater Boston’s history to discover untold stories from underrepresented communities. . . . Not your average guidebook." "One of our favorite books of 2020."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520294523
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 2 A People's Guide Series
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520294521
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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