Resistance

A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side

672 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Foreword by Jeff FerrellThis collection of writings and images curated by artist Clayton Patterson documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human landscape of one of America’s most storied bohemias. In over fifty chapters, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Christopher Mele, John Macmillan, Jim Feast, Al Orensanz, Allan Antliff, Lynn Stewart, Thomas McEvilly, Frank Morales, and many others cover topics ranging from the early settlement houses and sweatshops to squatters, rioters, artists, activists and organizers. Resistance is jam-packed with fascinating first-person accounts of the battles, triumphs, failures, and lives of a neighborhood that is rapidly being lost to gentrification.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781583227459
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2007
• Größe: 275 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Seven Stories Press
• Herausgegeben von: Clayton Patterson