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"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

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Introduction, 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

Before the Fires

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 1 September 2016
      ISBN-13 9780823273522
      978-0823273522
      ISBN-10 0823273520
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade 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 Contents
      Introduction, 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

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