RII Track-4:NSF: Reconstructing Reputation in the American South

RII Track-4：NSF：在美国南部重建声誉

• 批准号: 2327372
• 负责人: Jeffrey Parker
• 金额: $ 21.13万
• 依托单位: University of New Orleans
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327372&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RII; Track; NSF; Reconstructing; Reputation

This Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4 EPSCoR Research Fellows (RII Track-4) project would provide a fellowship to an Assistant Professor and training for a graduate student at the University of New Orleans. This work would be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Urben Studies Institute at Georgia State University (GSU). How do places get reputations, and how do people work to build, support, or reject those reputations? This project uses one case—the American South’s reputation for racism and parochialism from Reconstruction to the present—to examine larger questions about how place reputations get made. Specifically, this project will examine the role merchants have played in the reputational life of past and present Atlanta as one case in the South. It takes an understudied source of division and inequality—place reputation—and contextualizes it within both a long history and the current moment. At a time when regional segmentation drives popular debate about political polarization, it is to society’s benefit to better understand why we think what we think about the places we live. The project is particularly important at a time of mass protests related to inequality across the United States. As those engaged with protest in the region demand fundamental changes to institutions of criminal justice and political representation, they undertake a project about the way things are and should be that is related to memory and mythology of the way things were. Such an endeavor necessitates an understanding of place reputation, because reputation is the manifestation of the past living with us in the present, and must be reckoned with if we are to understand calls for change rooted in dealing with that past.The PI will examine the role of merchants in the emergence of, maintenance of, and resistance to the American South’s regional reputation for racism and parochialism from Reconstruction to the present, with a particular focus on the Civil Rights era and the present. Businesses were important sites of racial discrimination historically, and the region’s business elite persisted in supporting segregation even in the face of outside pressures. That said, there is also evidence that businesses were constrained economically by segregation, and post-Civil Rights era, businesses have taken an active role in contesting reputations for racism. Such actions can be done for reasons of sincere belief or pure financial interest, but evidence suggests the South’s historical and contemporary reputation for racism and parochialism is a live issue for businesses. This has been particularly true in recent years in Georgia, where conflict has erupted between a conservative state government and the Atlanta business community over, among other things, civil and voting rights. It is within this context the PI proposes using EPSCoR to help build intellectual capacity at the University of New Orleans (UNO) by conducting research in Atlanta under the auspices of the Urban Studies Institute (USI) at Georgia State University (GSU). The PI will do historical research at a number of archives located at GSU and elsewhere in Atlanta and conduct interviews with Atlanta merchants. The goal of the project is to better understand interconnections among region, reputation, and capitalism in the American South, using Atlanta as a case.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该研究基础设施改进 Track-4 EPSCoR 研究员 (RII Track-4) 项目将为新奥尔良大学的助理教授提供奖学金并为研究生提供培训 这项工作将与 Urben 的研究人员合作进行。佐治亚州立大学 (GSU) 研究所。地方如何获得声誉，以及人们如何努力建立、支持或拒绝这些声誉？该项目使用一个案例——美国南方从重建时期至今的种族主义和狭隘主义声誉。 -到具体来说，这个项目将研究商人在过去和现在的亚特兰大的声誉生活中所扮演的角色，作为南方的一个案例。它需要一个未被充分研究的分裂和不平等的根源——地方声誉——。并将其置于悠久的历史和当前的背景下，在区域分割引发有关政治两极分化的流行辩论的时候，更好地理解为什么我们对我们所居住的地方有这样的看法，对社会是有好处的。在弥撒时很重要由于该地区参与抗议的人们要求对刑事司法和政治代表制度进行根本性改变，因此他们开展了一个有关事物现状和应该如何的项目，该项目与人们的记忆和神话有关。这种努力需要了解地方声誉，因为声誉是过去生活在当下的表现，如果我们要理解根植于处理过去的变革呼声，就必须认真对待声誉。 PI将研究商家在新兴市场中的作用从重建时期到现在，特别关注民权时代和现在，美国南方的种族主义和狭隘主义的地区声誉一直是种族歧视的重要场所，也是该地区商业精英的重要场所。即使面对外部压力，也坚持支持种族隔离，也有证据表明，企业在经济上受到种族隔离的限制，而后民权时代，企业在争夺种族主义声誉方面发挥了积极作用。为出于真诚信仰或纯粹经济利益的原因，但有证据表明，南方在历史和当代的种族主义和狭隘主义声誉是企业面临的一个现实问题，近年来在佐治亚州尤其如此，保守的州政府和保守派之间爆发了冲突。正是在这种背景下，PI 建议利用 EPSCoR 在城市大学的支持下在亚特兰大开展研究，帮助新奥尔良大学 (UNO) 建设知识能力。研究佐治亚州立大学 (GSU) 研究所 (USI) 项目负责人将在 GSU 和亚特兰大其他地方的多个档案馆进行历史研究，并对亚特兰大商人进行采访。该项目的目标是更好地了解地区之间的相互联系。以亚特兰大为例。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。