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  • BEFORE THE FIRES
    MARK NAISON / BOB GUMBS
    Residents of the South Bronx during its promising postwar decades tell their stories in their own words.   In the 1930s, word spread in Harlem that there were spacious apartments for rent in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Landlords, desperate to avoid foreclosure, began putting signs in windows and placing ads in New York's black newspapers that said "We rent to select co...

    $249.00

  • THE RAT THAT GOT AWAY
    ALLEN JONES / MARK NAISON
    One man's "gripping" story of growing up in the South Bronx during an era of upheaval—and overcoming addiction to find success ( Library Journal).   Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time—the 1950s—when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, wit...

    $274.00

  • BADASS TEACHERS UNITE!
    MARK NAISON
    An academic exposes how dominant education reform policies destabilize low-income communities. In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education "reform" policies that undermine their p...

    $251.00