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Organizing the South Bronx
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Organizing the South Bronx Paperback - 1994

by Jim Rooney

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From the publisher

This is a story of heroic and articulate individuals who were able to defy overwhelming odds and build affordable housing in the South Bronx. It is about the process of teaching citizens in a low-income neighborhood how to participate in public life.

Very little is written about the catastrophic and precipitous collapse of the South Bronx, although its fate is universally cited as emblematic of urban hopelessness. This inquiry focuses on community organizers who are sifting through the wreckage and making progress in battling an inept municipal government and the centrifugal forces of decay. The locus is a coalition of forty minority congregations, who battled the city of New York for vacant land in order to build owner-occupied row houses. This is a study of how to educate adults in a democracy to find their voice and wield the power that is inherent in large numbers of organized citizens.

From the rear cover

This is a story of heroic and articulate individuals who were able to defy overwhelming odds and build affordable housing in the South Bronx. it is about the process of teaching citizens in a low-income neighborhood how to participate in public life.

Details

  • Title Organizing the South Bronx
  • Author Jim Rooney
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1994-11-22
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780791422106 / 0791422100
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 5.92 x 0.57 in (22.91 x 15.04 x 1.45 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Industrial Areas Foundation, South Bronx Churches
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93-49671
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.141

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 09/26/1994, Page 62

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