Making Rent In Bed Stuy
Download Making Rent In Bed Stuy full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Making Rent In Bed Stuy ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
Author | : Brandon Harris |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062415654 |
Download Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious, life-threatening process" of gentrification. Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and sociocultural importance of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn’s largest historically black community, through the lens of a coming-of-age young American negro artist living at the dawn of an era in which urban class warfare is politely referred to as gentrification. Bookended by accounts of two different breakups, from a roommate and a lover, both who come from the white American elite, the book oscillates between chapters of urban bildungsroman and a historical examination of some of Bed-Stuy’s most salient aesthetic and political legacies. Filled with personal stories and a vibrant cast of iconoclastic characters— friends and acquaintances such as Spike Lee; Lena Dunham; and Paul MacCleod, who made a living charging $5 for a tour of his extensive Elvis collection—Making Rent in Bed-Stuy poignantly captures what happens when youthful idealism clashes head-on with adult reality. Melding in-depth reportage and personal narrative that investigates the disappointments and ironies of the Obama era, the book describes Brandon Harris’s radicalization, and the things he lost, and gained, along the way.
Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Related Books
Pages: 227
Pages: 197
Pages: 716
Pages: 434
Pages: 256