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A People's Guide to New York City (Paperback)
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A People's Guide to New York City (Paperback)
Series: A People's Guide Series, 5
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This alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular
tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a
people's New York City. The sites and stories of A People's Guide
to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York,
placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its
people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five
boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women
marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers
claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against
landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable
housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these
groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to
look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city,
serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and
a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is
among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of
the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that
make this global city function-immigrants, people of color, and the
working classes-reside largely in the so-called outer boroughs,
outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A
People's Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of
traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the
diverse communities throughout the city. Through the stories of
over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and
Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and
archival photographs, a people's New York emerges, one in which
collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very
landscape of the city.
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