Praise for Mark Naison's Communists in Harlem During the Depression:"[Naison's] thoughtful, judicious study vividly conveys a heady atmosphere of political experimentation." ?The Nation In this incisi
The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point
No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the communist Party did in Harlem during the Depression. Mark Naison describes how the party won the early endorsement
Before the Fires is the first book documenting the African American experience in the Bronx during the years when the Bronx was seen as a place of hope and opportunity for Blacks and Latinos. Consisti
Before the Fires is the first book documenting the African American experience in the Bronx during the years when the Bronx was seen as a place of hope and opportunity for Blacks and Latinos. Consisti
PURE BRONX is a story about the vast diversity of people who make the Bronx what it is?hustlers, gang bangers, immigrants, and the working poor?powerful interests trying to make money off its struggli
The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point
Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but
In Brownsville's twenty-one housing projects, the young cops and the teenagers who stand solemnly on the street corners are bitter and familiar enemies. The Ville, as the Brownsville-East New York sec
The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from
