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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Biography New York (State) New York New York (State) New York Bronx Puerto Rican women Biography Juvenile literature Puerto Ricans Juvenile literature Sisters Sisters Biography Juvenile literature Social change Social change Juvenile literature Women political activists Biography Juvenile literatureSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROLeBlanc, Adrian Nicole.
Summary: Follows two teenagers coming of age in the midst of the Bronx drug trade as they experience budding sexuality, teen parenthood, and gang identity in a social examination of the challenges of family life in the face of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 LEBRamos, NoNieqa
Summary: Rhythmic verse presents three sisters who moved from Puerto Rico to New York City as children and grew up to be pioneering activists in their Bronx community, focusing on schools, libraries, and the arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2024