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"To serve the community best": reconsidering Black politics in the struggle to save Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, 1976-1984.
- Source :
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Journal of urban history [J Urban Hist] 2010; Vol. 36 (5), pp. 594-616. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The move to consolidate, and eventually to close, Homer G. Phillips Hospital sparked a major uprising in St. Louis, Missouri, during the years 1976 through 1984. This article explores the struggle in St. Louis’s black community to keep open, and later to reopen, Homer G. Phillips Hospital from a vantage point that demonstrates the diversity of opinion surrounding the struggle. For many black St. Louis residents, the physical space of Homer G. Phillips Hospital was a metaphor for identity, a manifestation of citizenship rights, and a means of delineating a territory of shared histories, understandings, and values. For others, it was a relic of segregation and racism. In seeking to understand the diversity of public reaction, this article addresses class antagonism, examines the varied and divergent motivations for eliminating or maintaining services at the hospital, and reconsiders the discourse of "black politics." It is a decisive illustration of how the national twin crises of deindustrialization and privatization affected a heterogeneous black community.
- Subjects :
- Civil Rights economics
Civil Rights education
Civil Rights history
Civil Rights legislation & jurisprudence
Civil Rights psychology
Cultural Diversity
History, 20th Century
Humans
Missouri ethnology
Politics
Race Relations history
Race Relations legislation & jurisprudence
Race Relations psychology
Social Change history
Social Identification
Social Values ethnology
Urban Health history
Black or African American education
Black or African American ethnology
Black or African American history
Black or African American legislation & jurisprudence
Black or African American psychology
Community Networks economics
Community Networks history
Community Networks legislation & jurisprudence
Delivery of Health Care economics
Delivery of Health Care history
Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence
Hospitals history
Public Opinion history
Urban Population history
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0096-1442
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of urban history
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20827835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144210365455