Dissertation Information for Douglas BoydNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: Reconstructing Craw: Examining the dynamics of oral history and public memory
Abstract: "Craw was a small neighborhood in north Frankfort, Kentucky, located on fifty acres of swampy, low-lying land along the Kentucky River. To neighborhood outsiders, Craw was the bad part of town carrying a long list of deeply imbedded historical associations: violence, poverty, corruption, dirt, saloons, pool halls, whiskey, cockfights, murder, gambling, bootlegging, whores, slums, and crime. However, neighborhood residents saw Craw from a different perspective. By 1950, every building within the fifty acres once known as ""Craw,"" ""the Bottom,"" or ""Crawfish Bottom"" was destroyed at the hand of urban renewal. In 1991, James Wallace conducted approximately 25 interviews with former residents of Craw. In the course of each interview, Wallace made his intentions very clear: to document the history of this community from the perspective of its residents, to overturn exoteric perceptions of this community, and to uncover the tragic consequences and injustices of urban renewal. |
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