Douglas Flowe, an associate professor of history in Arts & Sciences at WashU, is featured in a new documentary about New York’s now-demolished San Juan Hill neighborhood and in some episodes of the History Channel series “Prison Chronicles.” “San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood” premiered Oct. 9 at the New York Film Festival.
Flowe is the author of “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York,” which received the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association in 2021. His research focuses on criminality, illicit leisure and masculinity, and how they converge with issues of race, class and space. Read more here.
