[PDF.18zs] Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

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 | #6647686 in Books |  2016-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.20 x.80 x9.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 226 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Ray Bromley|great!|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Before The Heroin . . . .|By SundayAtDusk|When I first started reading this book, I thought the stories were a bit flat. These oral histories weren't as lively as the other recent memoirs I had read about growing up in one place or another. But| ||"Before the Fires is an excellent oral history--profound, moving and skillfully executed. It will compel readers to revise their understandings of both the South Bronx and New York City."--Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers University- Newark||"As hip-hop has

People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World's Series at Yankee Stadium, "There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning." In this new book, Naison and Gumbs provide a completely different picture of the South Bronx through interviews with residents who lived...

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