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Their inhabitants are subject peoples ... --Kenneth Clark, on the 'Dark Ghettos' of American cities (1) In this paper, I examine the Strange Career of Jim Crow in the context [...]

A model of 'Cultural Community' was proposed to define the Chinese American community in St. Louis since the 1960s and its significance and applicability to the understanding of the multiethnic and multicultural American Society. A cultural community does not always have particular physical boundaries, but is socially defined by the common cultural practices and beliefs of its members.

'On Leong' means peaceful. If they have problems and don't know what to do or if there is a dispute about payment of debt, they go to one of the [...]

Much of the research on violent crime is situated within an exclusively structural or subcultural framework. Some recent work, however, argues that these unidimensional approaches are inherently limited and that more attention needs to be given to the intersection of structural and cultural determinants of violence. The present study takes up this challenge by examining both structural and cultural influences on one underexamined type of homicide: retaliatory killings. Using quantitative data to examine the socioeconomic correlates and ecological distribution of homicide in St. Louis, Missouri, and narrative accounts of homicide incidents, we find that a certain type of homicide (what we call 'cultural retaliatory homicide') is more common in some neighborhoods than in others due to the combined effects of economic disadvantage, neighborhood cultural responses to disadvantage, and problematic policing. Problems confronting residents of these communities are often resolved informally--without calling the police--and neighborhood cultural codes support this type of problem-solving, even when the 'solution' involves a retaliatory killing. The findings thus lend support to a more integrated structural-cultural perspective on violent crime in urban neighborhoods.

In the past 35 years, St. Louis, Missouri, has built all of the components of a complete infrastructure of urban tourism: three sports facilities, a convention center and its renovation, an urban entertainment districts and two downtown malls. This sequence of large projects was undertaken even though St. Louis has an extremely fragmented government, and despite the gradual withdrawal of the business elite from the city's affairs. In this article, it is suggested that the city was able to undertake a significant agenda of construction because of the presence of policy communities that linked policy entrepreneurs within the city to external groups. If St. Louis can be taken as a typical case, in many cities a constellation of policy communities may be appropriating decision making and fiscal authority from the democratic institutions of city government. Keywords: policy communities; tourism; infrastructure; urban politics; institutions

This article discusses the history and social aspects of life in St. Louis Chinatown. Topics include social prejudice, poverty, race relations, and urban growth.

Urban school systems face many problems and challenges. Policy responses require not only improvement within schools but also a broad structure of civic support. These authors focus on the creation and activation of civic support for public education. Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis provide very different examples of how civic support develops or fails to develop. Our comparative analysis highlights two major elements in this process: institution building to redirect business coalitions from a focus on economic development to a focus on education and leadership in activating civic capacity on behalf of public education., Public schools in urban America face widespread criticism. Charges of poor student performance and low academic achievement are commonplace. The policy response includes such reforms as privatization, vouchers, charter schools, [...]

The ARCH (A Real Community Helps) After-School Program developed by two professors of Webster University helps improve the literary skills of children who do not have a strong educational background. The first ARCH program selected the students of Carver Elementary School, St. Louis, MO, and had student volunteers from Webster University, St. Louis Community College and Vashon High School as tutors. Started as a project involving individuals, the ARCH program evolved into a community program in which everyone cares for everybody else.

The operatic arrangements of 1886 in St. Louis featured many companies which provided a good amount of entertainment. The season opened with Colonel James Henry Mapleson's opera company, which was the cause of much entertainment and controversies when he changed the bill and his star singer at the last minute. After his company came Herman Grau's company followed by Miss Goldsticker and lastly American Opera Company which led to the moralistic debate about ballet.

Arguably, the best-known female war correspondent of the 20th century came from an old St. Louis family. In fact, Martha Gellhorn continued to visit her mother in St. Louis well [...]

St. Louis Dems held a 12/7 fundraiser for Iraq vet/prof. Tommy Sowers (D), and 'several well-known' local Dems are hosting the event, including ex-Sen. Jean Carnahan (D). Tickets range from [...]

What would prompt the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Regional Commerce and Growth Association and the William T. Kemper Foundation of St. Louis to invite urban journalists Neal Peirce and Curtis [...]

The first tale about St. Louis is embedded in the 'St. Louis Has It All from A to Z' campaign of the 1980s. Of course every city has its own [...]