Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania

Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, January 20, 2011, 3:30 am EST

Time: 12:15 p.m.

Place: 2U Conference Room, Room 2019, Claire Fagin Hall

Information: nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu or 215-898-4502


Abstract: What accounts for the alarming concentration of homicide among African Americans, both historically and in the contemporary city? This paper is part of a larger project seeking to explore the relationships among segregation, concentrated poverty, masculinity, and homicide as they have evolved between the 1940s and the 1990s. I am interested both in the history of homicide and in how it has changed over time and in using homicide as a way of reading the history of the city.