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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As hip-hop has become a metaphor for the ingenuity and perseverance of a generation of black and Latino/a youth raised in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Mark Naison and Robert Gumbs's oral history of the region is a timely reminder of the brilliance incubated in the South Bronx two generations Before the Fires." -- -Mark Anthony Neal author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities "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
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Professor Mark Naison Preface, Robert Gumbs 1. Vincent Harding (1931?2014) 2. Howie Evans (1934?) 3. Henry Pruitt (1934?) 4. Arthur Crier (1935?2004) 5. Gene Norman (1935?) 6. Beatrice Bergland (1936?) 7. Jacqueline Smith Bonneau (1938?) 8. Hetty Fox (1938?) 9. James Pruitt (1938?) 10. Paul Himmelstein (1941?) 11. Joseph Orange (1941?) 12. Jimmy Owens, (1943?) 13. Andrea Ramsey (1943?) 14. Daphne Moss (1947?) 15. Victoria Archibald?Good (1947?) 16. Taur Orange (1955?) Appendix, Walking Tour
