South Bronx Battles (eBook)

Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Renewal

Carolyn McLaughlin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
368 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96380-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Community activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and its decades-long commitment to develop nonprofit housing and social-services, and to advocate for better education, health care, and a healthier environment. For the South Bronx to remain a safe haven for poor families, maintaining affordable housing is the central—but most challenging—task.

South Bronx Battles is the comeback story of a community that was once in crisis but now serves as a beacon for other cities to rebuild, while keeping their neighborhoods affordable.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Foreword
South Bronx Timeline
Map of South Bronx

1. The South Bronx: An Introduction
2. How the South Bronx Became the Poorest
Congressional District
3. Why the South Bronx Burned
4. People Fight Back: 1960s and 1970s
5. Progress, but Plagues Descend on the South
Bronx: 1980s
6. Not Yet Paradise, but We’ve Come a Long Way: 1990s
7. Many Faces of Success: 2000–2018
8. “The Bronx Was the Last Place”: Reflections
on Displacement and Gentrification
9. Lessons Learned
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary
Notes
Interviews
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 1977 bronx fires • affordable housing south bronx • better education south bronx • bronx burning • bronx education • bronx fires • bronx health care • bronx improvements since the 1970s • diversity in the bronx • health care nyc • history of NYC • nonprofit housing south bronx • NYC • nyc nonprofit housing • poorest congressional district • poor families in the bronx • rebuilding the bronx • rebuilt bronx • social services south bronx • South Bronx
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96380-6 / 0520963806
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96380-1 / 9780520963801