Power at the Roots : Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side 9780739146262, 9780739146248

Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side 1558611150, 9781558611153

Born in Transylvania at the turn of the century, Bella Cohen Spewack arrived on the streets of New York's Lower Eas

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Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side 9780823279289

Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and

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Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side 0823239004, 9780823239009

This lively ethnography traces a fraught three months in the life of a Jewish congregation stubbornly persisting on the

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How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images 9781400889242

How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed a

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Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side 9780691207698

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning N

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Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States 9780814788530

Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impo

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Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City 9780520937727

Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and

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The tenement saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers 9780299204808, 9780299204839, 9780299204846

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The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement 9781479801374

Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society O

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Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait 9781685854126

A nuanced portrait of the Puerto Rican community in the US today, as well as the trajectory of its development.

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