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Brooklynites

Author : Prithi Kanakamedala
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479833126
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Brooklynites written by Prithi Kanakamedala and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough through their search for social justice Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation’s third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life—businesswomen, church leaders, laborers, and writers—who sought to grow their city in a radical anti-slavery vision. The residents of neighborhoods like DUMBO, Fort Greene, and Williamsburg organized and agitated for social justice. They did so even as their own freedom was threatened by systemic and structural racism, risking their safety for the sake of their city. Brooklynites recovers the lives of these remarkable citizens and considers their lasting impact on New York City’s most populous borough. This cultural and social history is told through four ordinary families from Brooklyn’s nineteenth-century free Black community: the Crogers, the Hodges, the Wilsons, and the Gloucesters. The book illustrates the depth and scope of their activism, cementing Brooklyn’s place in the history of social justice movements. Their lives offer valuable lessons on freedom, democracy, and family—both the ones we’re born with and the ones we choose. Their powerful stories continue to resonate today, as borough residents fill the streets in search of a more just city. This is a story of land, home, labor, of New Yorkers past, and the legacy they left us. This is the story of Brooklyn.

The Brooklynites

Author : Anthony LaSala
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576873984
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The Brooklynites written by Anthony LaSala and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brooklyn is the conscience of New York. While Manhattan tears everything down and changes everything, Brooklyn does a similar thing, but fails miserably at it. It is a crazy quilt of a place. A mongrel place of sorts. It mixes old and modern in a haphazard way. It represents a tiny microcosm of the world-functional utopia." -Jonathan Lethem A complex and quixotic urban animal found ranging across southeast New York City, the Brooklynite has obtained a sort of mythological status, representing the "you tawkin' to me?" attitude for which the city is world-renowned. For over three years, writer Anthony LaSala and photographer Seth Kushner trekked tirelessly across the borough, documenting these charismatic characters in The Brooklynites, a collection of images, interviews, and essays. Kushner and LaSala, native Brooklynites themselves, sought out the famous and the nameless, current residents and former inhabitants, providing a profoundly comprehensive portrait of both the metropolis and its denizens. Featuring the likes of Paul Auster, Spike Lee, Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez, Sufjan Stevens, John Turturro, Casey Spooner, Steve Schirripa, Matisyahu, and Jonathan Lethem-as well as local heroes-The Brooklynites features figures from the widely diverse neighborhoods of the city's most populous borough: Brooklyn Heights, Bay Ridge, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Boerum Hill, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Coney Island, DUMBO, Dyker Heights, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Gravesend, Greenpoint, Manhattan Beach, Marine Park, Midwood, Mill Basin, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Sheepshead Bay, Sunset Park, and Williamsburg. With a population of 2.5 million people, Brooklyn is one of the most celebrated locales in all the world. Its landmarks (The Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwood Cemetery), renowned neighborhoods (Coney Island, Park Slope), history (The Brooklyn Dodgers) and institutions (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Prospect Park) are recognized in every corner of the globe while its stories and legends have been recounted in hundreds of famous novels (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Motherless Brooklyn, Last Exit to Brooklyn), television shows (The Cosby Show), theater productions (BKLYN the musical) and films (Saturday Night Fever, Crooklyn). The Brooklynites gives readers an all-inclusive tour of the "home to everyone from everywhere": Brooklyn, New York.

America's First Black Town

Author : Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025372
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book America's First Black Town written by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua traces Brooklyn's transformation from a freedom village into a residential commuter satellite that supplied cheap labor to the city and the region.".

Brooklyn!

Author : Ellen Marie Snyder-Grenier
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592130825
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn! written by Ellen Marie Snyder-Grenier and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with prints, paintings, memorabilia, and objects from The Brooklyn Historical Society's unparalleled collection, Brooklyn! will bring every reader closer to the Brooklyn of legend and fact.

The New Brooklyn

Author : Kay S. Hymowitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266589
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The New Brooklyn written by Kay S. Hymowitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough “1 percenters” to draw the Occupy Wall Street protests across the Brooklyn Bridge. “Tres Brooklyn,” has become a compliment among gourmands in Parisian restaurants. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the dramatic transformation of the once crumbling borough. Devoting separate chapters to Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hymowitz identifies the government policies and young, educated white and black middle class enclaves responsible for creating thousands of new businesses, safe and lively streets, and one of the most desirable urban environments in the world. Exploring Brownsville, the growing Chinatown of Sunset Park, and Caribbean Canarsie, Hymowitz also wrestles with the question of whether the borough’s new wealth can lift up long disadvantaged minorities, and the current generation of immigrants, many of whom will need more skills than their predecessors to thrive in a postindustrial economy. The New Brooklyn’s portraits of dramatic urban transformation, and its sometimes controversial effects, offers prescriptions relevant to “phoenix” cities coming back to life across the United States and beyond its borders.

Brooklyn

Author : Michael W. Robbins
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761116356
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn written by Michael W. Robbins and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Brooklyn features more than one hundred original articles that tap into the life of "America's Hometown."

Field Hearing on H.R. 6 Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Field Hearing on H.R. 6 Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These hearing transcripts present testimony concerning the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESA) Act, which since 1965 has provided the bulk of federal aid to elementary and secondary schools and related programs. Much of the testimony was from New York education officials, school administrators, community leaders, parents, and other interested individuals who voiced opinions about the efficacy of specific programs and activities funded by the ESA Act, particularly those items that they would like to see expanded or improved. Testimony was heard from: (1) Assistant Commissioner for Nonpublic School Services, New York State Education Department for the New York State Commissioner of Education; (2) two school district superintendents; (3) the president of a local branch of the United Federation of Teachers; (4) the president of a New York City business-school partnership; (5) the chancellor of the New York City Board of Education; (6) the president of a school parents' organization; (7) the president of the School of Visual Arts; (8) the executive director of the New York State Mentoring Program on behalf of the chairperson of the New York State Mentoring Program; and (9) the executive director of the Education Priorities Panel. Following the testimonies are prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials. (MDM)

House documents

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Property and Private Power

Author : Hendrik Hartog
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732471
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Public Property and Private Power written by Hendrik Hartog and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Public Property and Private Power".

Humanities

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barbra Streisand

Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220715
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Barbra Streisand written by Neal Gabler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. Neal Gabler examines Streisand’s life and career through this prism of otherness—a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention—and shows how central it was to Streisand’s triumph as one of the voices of her age.

For the Culture

Author : Marcus Collins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541702786
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book For the Culture written by Marcus Collins and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade argues that culture is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior, and shows readers how to harness culture to inspire other people to share their vision. We all try to influence others in our daily lives. Whether you are a manager motivating your team, an employee making a big presentation, an activist staging a protest, or an artist promoting your music, you are in the business of getting people to take action. In For the Culture, Marcus Collins argues true cultural engagement is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior. If you want to get people to move, you must first understand the underlying cultural forces that make them tick. Collins uses stories from his own work as an award-winning marketer—from spearheading digital strategy for Beyoncé, to working on Apple and Nike collaborations, to the successful launch of the Brooklyn Nets NBA team—to break down the ways in which culture influences behavior and how readers can do the same. With a deep perspective, and built on a century’s worth of data, For the Culture gives readers the tools they need to inspire collective change by leveraging the cheat codes used by some of the biggest brands in the world. This is the only book you’ll need if you want to influence people to take action.

African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830: Volume 2, 1800–1830

Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108687849
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830: Volume 2, 1800–1830 written by Jasmine Nichole Cobb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form.

Ideas and Images

Author : Kenneth L. Ames
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761989325
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Ideas and Images written by Kenneth L. Ames and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of eleven case studies of successful history museum exhibitions supplying a compendium of highly regarded installations which can stand as a creative guide to other institutions. The contributing museum specialists analyze what works in an outstanding history exhibition from building new audiences and experimenting with new subjects to design techniques and working with consultants. Among the exhibitions featured are the Hispanic Heritage Wing of the Museum of International Folk Art and the Indianapolis Children's Museum. Includes photographs. Originally published by the American Association for State and Local History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Brooklyn by Name

Author : Leonard Benardo
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814799469
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn by Name written by Leonard Benardo and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. These pages take readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Over 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place names are organized alphabetically by region. Photos & maps.

When Brooklyn Was Queer

Author : Hugh Ryan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250169925
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book When Brooklyn Was Queer written by Hugh Ryan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. ***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection*** ***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar*** "A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." —Kirkus Reviews, starred “[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful.” —The New York Times Book Review Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history—a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Brooklyn’s queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic.

The Brooklyn Film

Author : John B. Manbeck
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786481200
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book The Brooklyn Film written by John B. Manbeck and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn, New York, a borough of New York City, is known for its distinctive vernacular, its communal feel on the fringes of a booming city, and its famous bridge, a gateway to the unlimited opportunities in Manhattan. Of course, Coney Island deserves a mention as it garners its own fame independent of Brooklyn, its parent locale. New York City moviemaking got its start in Brooklyn when Charles E. Chinnock shot his silent film in 1894. Since then, many films have been made, studios opened and stars born in Brooklyn, contributing to its undeniable influence in the film industry. This work is a collection of essays on the topic of Brooklyn as portrayed in film. It includes a discussion of race relations in films dealing with Brooklyn, the story of Jackie Robinson as shown on film, the changing face of cinematic Brooklyn and some thoughts on a Brooklyn filmgoer's experience. The combination of Brooklyn and baseball in the films of Paul Auster is examined, as well as the typical portrayal of a Brooklyn native in film.