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Making rent in Bed-Stuy : a memoir of trying to make it in New York City
- Title
- Making rent in Bed-Stuy : a memoir of trying to make it in New York City / Brandon Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Brandon
- Publication
- New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-5138 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 17-2521 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 307 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Humorous memoir by a young filmmaker about his experience living in the historically black neighborhood, Bedford Stuyvesant, while it undergoes 'the serious, life-threatening process' of gentrification and the economic and cultural forces at play.
- "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." -- Publisher's description
- Subjects
- Black author
- Autobiographies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- African Americans > Biography
- Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- Generation Y > United States > Biography
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions > 21st century
- Harris, Brandon
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 21st century
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Contents
- 2500 Red Bank Road -- 166 Throop Avenue -- 227-241 Taaffe Place -- 551 Kosciuszko Street -- 158 Buffalo Avenue -- 730 Dekalb Avenue -- South Elliot Place -- 200 Gholson Avenue -- 5920 Rhode Island Avenue -- 434 Green Avenue -- 485 Lexington Avenue.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-2521
- ISBN
- 9780062415646
- 0062415646
- OCLC
- 946906494
- Author
- Harris, Brandon, author.
- Title
- Making rent in Bed-Stuy : a memoir of trying to make it in New York City / Brandon Harris.
- Publisher
- New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-2521JFD 17-5138