The Bronx

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231121156
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bronx by : Evelyn Gonzalez

Download or read book The Bronx written by Evelyn Gonzalez and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronx is a fascinating history of a singular borough, mapping its evolution from a loose cluster of commuter villages to a densely populated home for New York's African American and Hispanic populations. In recounting the varied and extreme transformations this community has undergone, Evelyn Gonzalez argues that racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, and big government were not the only reasons for the urban crisis that assailed the Bronx during the late 1960s. Rather, a combination of population shifts, public housing initiatives, economic recession, and urban overdevelopment caused its decline. Yet she also proves that ongoing urbanization and neighborhood fluctuations are the very factors that have allowed the Bronx to undergo one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history. The process of building and rebuilding carries on, and the revitalization of neighborhoods and a resurgence of economic growth continue to offer hope for the future.

Bronx Masquerade

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425289761
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Bronx Masquerade by : Nikki Grimes

Download or read book Bronx Masquerade written by Nikki Grimes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

Born in the Bronx

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Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Born in the Bronx by : Johan Kugelberg

Download or read book Born in the Bronx written by Johan Kugelberg and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip hop map of the Bronx on inside of dust jacket.

South Bronx Rising

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531501222
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis South Bronx Rising by : Jill Jonnes

Download or read book South Bronx Rising written by Jill Jonnes and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America’s poorest urban congressional district. In this new edition, we meet the present generation of activists who are transforming their communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles.

Just Kids From the Bronx

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627790969
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Just Kids From the Bronx by : Arlene Alda

Download or read book Just Kids From the Bronx written by Arlene Alda and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." —President Bill Clinton "Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." —Barbara Walters A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs—the Bronx—through some of its many success stories The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food—for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Al Pacino, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, Bobby Bonilla, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs—experiences spanning six decades of Bronx living. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, from looking for violets along the banks of the Bronx River to the wake-up calls from teachers who recognized potential, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx from the early twentieth century until today.

Parkchester

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479896705
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Book Synopsis Parkchester by : Jeffrey S. Gurock

Download or read book Parkchester written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Parkchester' explores the issues of race and ethnicity in the Bronx"--

Bronx Boy

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312278106
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (781 download)

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Book Synopsis Bronx Boy by : Jerome Charyn

Download or read book Bronx Boy written by Jerome Charyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Still known as "Baby", although a younger brother has come along, young Charyn makes pocket money delivering eggs, belongs to a group of twelve-year-old wannabe gangsters who meet in a soda shop run by an ex-con, and spends afternoons telling stories to the adoring wife of a wealthy Russian emigre. He becomes famous for his black-and-tans - a concoction of coffee ice cream, seltzer, milk, chocolate sauce, crushed pecans, and "a touch of bitterness that may have been the Bronx". So famous, indeed, that he walks away the winner of an annual black-and-tan contest sponsored by the real-life top gangster, called "The Little Man", Meyer Lansky."--BOOK JACKET.

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed

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Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 125076341X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed by : Saraciea J. Fennell

Download or read book Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed written by Saraciea J. Fennell and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community. The bestselling and award-winning contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Cristina Arreola, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Naima Coster, Natasha Diaz, Saraciea J. Fennell, Kahlil Haywood, Zakiya Jamal, Janel Martinez, Jasminne Mendez, Meg Medina, Mark Oshiro, Julian Randall, Lilliam Rivera, and Ibi Zoboi.

Urban Legends

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674238079
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Legends by : Peter L'Official

Download or read book Urban Legends written by Peter L'Official and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins—none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium—proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives—urban crisis and cultural renaissance—have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s carvings of abandoned buildings with the city’s trompe l’oeil decals program; examines the centrality of the Bronx’s infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films; offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe; and charts the emergence of a “global Bronx” as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.

They Came from the Bronx

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Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563978913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (789 download)

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Book Synopsis They Came from the Bronx by : Neil Waldman

Download or read book They Came from the Bronx written by Neil Waldman and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comanche boy listens to his grandmother reminisce about the days of the buffalo.

Stepmotherland

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268202141
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Book Synopsis Stepmotherland by : Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Download or read book Stepmotherland written by Darrel Alejandro Holnes and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepmotherland is a tour-de-force debut collection about coming of age, coming out, and coming to America. Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s first full-length collection, is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity, family, and allegiance. This Central American love song is in constant motion as it takes us on a lyrical and sometimes narrative journey from Panamá to the USA and beyond. The driving force behind Holnes’s work is a pursuit for a new home, and as he searches, he takes the reader on a wild ride through the most pressing political issues of our time and the most intimate and transformative personal experiences of his life. Exploring a complex range of emotions, this collection is a celebration of the discovery of America, the discovery of self, and the ways they may be one and the same. Holnes’s poems experiment with macaronic language, literary forms, and prosody. In their inventiveness, they create a new tradition that blurs the borders between poetry, visual art, and dramatic text. The new legacy he creates is one with significant reverence for the past, which informs a central desire of immigrants and native-born citizens alike: the desire for a better life. Stepmotherland documents an artist’s evolution into manhood and heralds the arrival of a stunning new poetic voice.

In the South Bronx of America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the South Bronx of America written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of New York City's South Bronx neighborhood live amidst what is frequently described as the most severe and widespread poverty in any U.S. metropolitan area. In the South Bronx of America is a work which, through documentary photographs, counterpointed with statements by residents and by newspaper reports and statistical information, offers both an intimate view of life in this neighborhood and a context for understanding the last two decades of accelerated social decay. In the words of Penny Coleman, New York Times photographer, In the South Bronx of America, "is important because it is not cynical, because it is a sincere attempt to provide the awareness necessary for change."

Back in the Bronx

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ISBN 13 : 9780965722100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (221 download)

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Book Synopsis Back in the Bronx by : Stephen M. Samtur

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When the Bronx Burned

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ISBN 13 : 9780595428304
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (283 download)

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Book Synopsis When the Bronx Burned by : John J. Finucane

Download or read book When the Bronx Burned written by John J. Finucane and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South Bronx during the 1960s and 70s, unscrupulous landlords and their torch-men set in motion a murderous wave of arson-for-profit, driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and injuring, maiming, and killing thousands more-including firefighters. Yet New York's mayor consistently refuses to give the fire department the manpower it needs to investigate the arson, and thousands of suspicious fires go uninvestigated. Jackie Mulligan and his brother firefighters stand up to the heartless evil of the slumlords by demanding that the mayor take action. But when the mayor refuses, Mulligan and his men take a stand against the arsonists, putting their jobs-and their lives-on the line. For Mulligan, the fight has become personal. And there will be only one winner. " John Finucane has written a riveting and fast moving novel Not only does he nail the drama in a way only an experienced firefighter can, he literally puts the reader inside the fire scene Reading John Finucane's comprehensive description brought back memories of my admiration for firefighters everywhere." -Charles J. Hynes Kings County District Attorney Former Fire Commissioner of NYC Author of first novel, Triple Homicide "For twenty years John Finucane breathed the acrid smoke, hauled the heavy hoses, and climbed the telescoping ladders for New York City's heroic fire department. He now writes about it from the gut-with verve, power, and poignancy. This is a fireman's fireman, pulling no punches and telling the story of a firefighter in New York's grittiest neighborhoods during the turbulent 1960s and 70s." -Roger D. McGrath, Ph.D. Author, Gunfighters, Highwaymen & Vigilantes Featured Commentator on the History Channel

Bronx Boys

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Bronx Boys by : Stephen Shames

Download or read book Bronx Boys written by Stephen Shames and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A photographic essay offering an unflinching look at boys growing up on the mean streets of the Bronx"--

Bronx Justice

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Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 146082184X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Bronx Justice by : Joseph Teller

Download or read book Bronx Justice written by Joseph Teller and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the late 1970s and criminal defence attorney Harrison J. Walker, better known as Jaywalker for his rebellious tactics, is struggling to build his own practice when he receives a call from a desperate mother. Her son, Darren Kingston, has been arrested for raping five white women in Castle Hill, an area of the Bronx long forgotten by the city. A young, good–looking black man, Darren is positively identified by four of the victims as the fifth prepares to do the same. Everyone from the prosecution to the community at large sees this as an open–and–shut case with solid eyewitness testimony. Everyone, that is, except Jaywalker. The young attorney looks deep into the crimes, studying both the characters involved and the character of our society. What he finds will haunt him for the rest of his career.

McNamara's Old Bronx

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ISBN 13 : 9780941980258
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis McNamara's Old Bronx by : John McNamara

Download or read book McNamara's Old Bronx written by John McNamara and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: