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Author : Jacob Riis
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 145850042X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (585 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob August Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob August Riis and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Riis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486129926
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
Author : Jacob a Riis
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (612 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives, New York (Annotated) written by Jacob a Riis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.How the Other Half Lives: Studies Between New York's Neighborhood Houses (Original title in English How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York) was one of the pioneering works of photojournalism by Jacob Riis in 1888. The Originally illustrated with halftones and engravings based on his photographs, the book denounces the living conditions in the working-class neighborhoods of New York City in the 1980s; it was a model of the way in which journalism and, in particular, photo journalism, could echo marginal situations that occurred in the middle and upper classes of a society.During the 80s of that century, the city's middle and upper classes ignored the difficult and dangerous conditions of marginalization of poor immigrants.
Author : Jacob August Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob August Riis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions. How the Other Half Lives brings them to life - the Italians, Jews, Bohemians (Czechs and Slovaks), Blacks, and Chinese - in precise descriptions of their habits and traditions, jobs and wages, rents paid and meals eaten, and explores the effects of crime, poverty, alcohol, and lack of education and opportunity on adults and children alike. Riis's reliance on specific, hard facts as the tools and weapons of social criticism pioneered the style of crusading journalism that continues today. His use of photographs ... to put faces to his stories was a landmark in photojournalism"--From publisher's description (a later edition).
Author : Jacob A. Riis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312574010
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob A. Riis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.
Author : Bonnie Yochelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618286X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering Jacob Riis written by Bonnie Yochelson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis s diary, chronicling romance, poverty, temptation, and, after many false starts, employment as a writer and reformer. In the second half, Yochelson describes how Riis used photography to shock and influence his readers. The authors describe Riis s intellectual education and discuss the influence of How the Other Half Lives on urban history. It shows that Riis argued for charity rather than social justice; but the fact that he understood what it was to be homeless did humanize Riis s work, and that work has continued to inspire reformers. Yochelson focuses on how Riis came to obtain his now famous images, how they were manipulated for publication, and their influence on the young field of photography."
Author : Mehrsa Baradaran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674495446
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Banks written by Mehrsa Baradaran and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities—all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s and continues decades later. “Baradaran argues persuasively that the banking industry, fattened on public subsidies (including too-big-to-fail bailouts), owes low-income families a better deal...How the Other Half Banks is well researched and clearly written...The bankers who fully understand the system are heavily invested in it. Books like this are written for the rest of us.” —Nancy Folbre, New York Times Book Review “How the Other Half Banks tells an important story, one in which we have allowed the profit motives of banks to trump the public interest.” —Lisa J. Servon, American Prospect
Author : Jacob August Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Children of the Poor written by Jacob August Riis and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Riis was a Danish-born photojournalist who used his camera to draw attention to the plight of the poor.
Author : Jacob A. Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977081230
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (812 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives (Annotated) written by Jacob A. Riis and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated version of the book1. contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text.2. This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errorsLong ago it was said that "one half of the world does not know how theother half lives." That was true then. It did not know because it didnot care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles,and less for the fate of those who were underneath, so long as it wasable to hold them there and keep its own seat. There came a time whenthe discomfort and crowding below were so great, and the consequentupheavals so violent, that it was no longer an easy thing to do, andthen the upper half fell to inquiring what was the matter. Informationon the subject has been accumulating rapidly since, and the whole worldhas had its hands full answering for its old ignorance.In New York, the youngest of the world's great cities, that time camelater than elsewhere, because the crowding had not been so great. Therewere those who believed that it would never come; but their hopes werevain. Greed and reckless selfishness wrought like results here as inthe cities of older lands. "When the great riot occurred in 1863," soreads the testimony of the Secretary of the Prison Association of NewYork before a legislative committee appointed to investigate causesof the increase of crime in the State twenty-five years ago, "everyhiding-place and nursery of crime discovered itself by immediate andactive participation in the operations of the mob. Those very placesand domiciles, and all that are like them, are to-day nurseries ofcrime, and of the vices and disorderly courses which lead to crime.By far the largest part--eighty per cent. at least--of crimes againstproperty and against the person are perpetrated by individuals whohave either lost connection with home life, or never had any, or whose_homes had ceased to be sufficiently separate, decent, and desirable toafford what are regarded as ordinary wholesome influences of home andfamily_.... The younger criminals seem to come almost exclusively fromthe worst tenement house districts, that is, when traced back to thevery places where they had their homes in the city here." Of one thingNew York made sure at that early stage of the inquiry: the boundaryline of the Other Half lies through the tenements.It is ten years and over, now, since that line divided New York'spopulation evenly. To-day three-fourths of its people live in thetenements, and the nineteenth century drift of the population to thecities is sending ever-increasing multitudes to crowd them. The fifteenthousand tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarian in thepast generation have swelled into thirty-seven thousand, and more thantwelve hundred thousand persons call them home. The one way out hesaw--rapid transit to the suburbs--has brought no relief. We know nowthat there is no way out; that the "system" that was the evil offspringof public neglect and private greed has come to stay, a storm-centreforever of our civilization. Nothing is left but to make the best of abad bargain.What the tenements are and how they grow to what they are, we shallsee hereafter. The story is dark enough, drawn from the plain publicrecords, to send a chill to any heart. If it shall appear that thesufferings and the sins of the "other half," and the evil theybreed, are but as a just punishment upon the community that gave itno other choice, it will be because that is the truth. The boundaryline lies there because, while the forces for good on one side vastlyoutweigh the bad--it were not well otherwise--in the tenements allthe influences make for evil; because they are the hot-beds of theepidemics that carry death to rich and poor alike; the nurseries ofpauperism and crime that fill our jails and police courts;
Author : Jacob Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611047677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (476 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''How the Other Half Lives'' by Jacob Riis sheds fascinating light on how our immigrants in the 1800's lived in New York City. A must-read for Americans whose family has been in the U.S. for only a few generations, this book tells what it was really like in the slums. Whether Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese or Polish, German, Russian, hordes of refugees ended up in New York on the promise of a better life. Entrepreneurs lured poor people from Eastern Europe and contracted out their labor in sweat shops in the US. The laborers lived in tenements, which were dark, unventilated cages in blocks of buildings that rented for a surprising high rent to people who died by the thousands in the unsanitary conditions. The conditions described by Jacob Riis in this classic are heart-rending, especially the part about foundling babies (abandoned newborns). A cradle was put outside a Catholic Church and instead of a baby each night, racks of babies appeared. The Church had to establish foundling hospitals run by nuns, who persuaded the unwed or impoverished mothers to nurse the baby they gave up, plus another baby. The child mortality rate, especially in the ''back tenements'' or buildings built on to the back of others (dark and airless) was incredible. Riis also provides interesting information about the gangs of New York in ''How the Other Half Lived.''
Author : Jacob August Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781981099047
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives (Annotated) written by Jacob August Riis and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinbeck Publishers have added some additional items to give you a fuller experience while reading "How the Other Half Lives". * Bibliography Timeline of the Author* Unique illustrations time sensitive to the literary periodBy the late 1880s, Riis had begun photographing the interiors and exteriors of New York slums with a flash lamp. Those photos are early examples of flashbulb photography. Riis used the images to dramatize his lectures and books, and the engravings of those photographs that were used in How the Other Half Lives helped to make the book popular. But it was Riis's revelations and writing style that ensured a wide readership: his story, he wrote in the book's introduction, "is dark enough, drawn from the plain public records, to send a chill to any heart."This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography.
Author : Jacob A. Riis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387049730
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Making of an American written by Jacob A. Riis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266746
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Solitude written by Paul Auster and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
Author : Sara Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202877
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book How the Other Half Looks written by Sara Blair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation that emerged from this critical site of encounter, showing how they have informed literary and everyday narratives of America, its citizens, and its possible futures. Taking readers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where image-makers, writers, and social reformers tested new techniques for apprehending America--and their subjects looked back, confronting the means used to represent them. This dynamic shaped the birth of American photojournalism, the writings of Stephen Crane and Abraham Cahan, and the forms of early cinema. During the 1930s, the emptying ghetto opened contested views of the modern city, animating the work of such writers and photographers as Henry Roth, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn. After World War II, the Lower East Side became a key resource for imagining poetic revolution, as in the work of Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones, and exploring dystopian futures, from Cold War atomic strikes to the death of print culture and the threat of climate change. How the Other Half Looks reveals how the Lower East Side has inspired new ways of looking-and looking back-that have shaped literary and popular expression as well as American modernity.
Author : Robert Pondiscio
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533753
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book How The Other Half Learns written by Robert Pondiscio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?
Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068482678X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Other America written by Michael Harrington and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
