Bronx Faces and Voices : Sixteen Stories of Courage and Community /

"For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rosenblum, Walter, 1919-2006 (Fotógrafo), Comerford, Georgeen (Fotógrafo), Munch, Janet Butler, 1950- (Editor ), Hill, Emita Brady (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban beautification.
Social conditions
Manners and customs.
Courage.
Community life.
Community development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Courage > New York (État) > New York > Études de cas.
Communaute > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Courage > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Community development > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Urban beautification > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Community life > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York > Bronx.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography > Portraits.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Biography > Portraits.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
Portraits.
Case studies.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx itself: elected officials, religious leaders, and activists who were determined to preserve the beauty of their parks and stability of their community. They had the courage to stay and fight against drug dealers, absent and indifferent landlords, banks that red-lined entire neighborhoods, and a voracious media that made the Bronx an international symbol of urban disaster. Some are no longer alive. But each of the sixteen played a positive role in a pivotal time, and they all deserve to be remembered and to have their voices heard. Portraits in this volume by noted photographers Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum document the Bronx faces in their beauty and diversity: young and old, witnesses to the history they lived and created"--
"Oral history of the development and progression of the Bronx borough in New York City by sixteen individuals; includes 22 images of Bronx individuals"--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (384 pages): illustrations, map ;
ISBN:9780896728899

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