Instead, he is motivated by personal experience and the drive to find answers to the questions he has. Though the recognition can be nice because it means more people are reading the work, Ramos makes it clear that he is not in academia for the awards.
Both prizes were awarded for Ramos’s article “ Poor Influences and Criminal Locations: Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Multicultural Identities, and Normal Homosexuality.” In their recognition, the judges of the Audre Lorde Prize called the essay “a true interdisciplinary study” that “brings together urban history, political science, carceral studies, disability studies and queer of color critique.” In 2020, he was awarded the Audre Lorde Prize, which recognizes an outstanding article on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual and/or queer history, and the Western History Association’s Ray Allen Billington Award, which recognizes work that addresses the legacy of native and/or settler peoples in frontier, border and borderland zones of intercultural contact. And in his classes, students are just as likely to encounter graphic novels and poetry as they are historical documents and books.ĭespite this interdisciplinary approach, Ramos is increasingly being recognized for his work as a historian. Meanwhile, his research exists at the intersection of race and medicine. Though he teaches in the Department of History, his doctorate is in American Studies and Ethnicity, which he describes as really being at the intersection of Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. Also included are an historical perspective by Kevin Keefe, former editor of Trains Magazine, a glossary of tramp terminology and technical details of the photographs.Assistant Professor of History Nic John Ramos, PhD, does not easily fit into any one category. The Foreword by his son Scott describes what it was like growing up as a street photographer's son. The book also includes the unique and moving stories told to John by the tramps as well as John's approach to getting to know these unique people and his unique photographic techniques. These rare historical images document a place an culture that no longer exists.
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"They thought I was interested in the trains but it was their stories, their smiles and my respect for them that kept me coming back."Įnd of the Line is a collection of John's black and white, candid, full frame available light photographs. It's a part of Los Angeles that is now gone.
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One day in 1974 John Free took his white dog Casper and his black Nikon camera to the Los Angeles Freight yards on an invite from a stranger to meet under a bridge to see "how a real tramp lives." Under that bridge he found the "Home Guard of the Taylor Yard," at the End of the Line, as far west as one could travel on trains and the best place for an old railroad tramp like shorty, Old Man PeeWee or Bobbi K, to live out their days. Choice of one of four images from the book. Each image is limited to 20 and is numbered and signed en verso.
6 inches by 8 inches on an 11X11 inch sheet of Canson Baryta Photographique, a paper base that ensures longevity and light-fastness.
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Hardbound, cloth cover and paper dust jacketīook plus one limited edition archival pigment print.
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