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Bronx Faces and Voices
. Ed(S): Hill, Emita Brady; Munch, Janet Butler
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"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. Editor(s): Hill, Emita Brady; Munch, Janet Butler. Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 816.
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 neighbourhoods, and a voracious media that made of the Bronx an ... Read more
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 neighbourhoods, and a voracious media that made of the Bronx an ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
Number of Pages
384
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896728882
SKU
V9780896728882
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About . Ed(S): Hill, Emita Brady; Munch, Janet Butler
Emita Brady Hill is the former chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo, USA and spent twenty years at Lehman College, the Bronx campus of CUNY, USA, in various roles, including department chair, dean and vice president, and professor of French language and literature, and was the program director for two NEH funded programs, The City and the Humanities and the Bronx ... Read more
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