Neighborhoods in the Bronx

relation to systems of oppression. Some of the areas the term has been applied include race, gender, and class due to their interconnectivity. From Eric Tang’s “Organizing in Poor Immigrant Communities: Starting from Scratch in the Bronx”, “How Refugees Stopped the Bronx from Burning,” and Maliha Safri and Julie Graham’s “The Global Household: Toward a Feminist Postcapitalist International Political Economy,” I analyze the interdependence of violence, organizing, and opportunity in the context…

Many different groups who attempted to use the new Prohibition laws to their advantage but few were ever successful. There were several figures during the 1920s that succeeded in taking advantage of the Prohibition Act. Among these individuals were Dutch Schultz, Meyer Lansky, Salvatore Luciano, and Arnold Rothstein. These men were able to form relationships that contributed to their success and the success of those around them. The unique mindset these individuals possessed allowed for them…

apartment complex was quaint for the Bronx; it had an older group of tenants and was unusually quiet for the city that never sleeps. And the week before I started working for City Year, I decided to find a local basketball court to play some ball. I played basketball growing up and co-captained my team at Ann Arbor Pioneer. It has always been one of my favorite pastimes. So I figured what better way to break in the neighborhood than to sink some three pointers on these Bronx ballers on a…

Violence is one common occurrence that affects the youth of South Bronx. When comparing numbers it is revealed that more adolescents were witnesses to a shooting than were sexually abused. That means that more than one in four children saw a shooting in their lives. Equally alarming, by statistics, approximately as many people that were present at a shooting would go on to threaten another person with a weapon. Even fights without a weapon were common occurrences to a large portion of the…

formed an area of segregation called the South Bronx, where the many different cultures end up living together. However, there is an interesting history behind this moment of time, and it is about how this place was the responsible…

Residents in the South Bronx are living at or below the poverty level. See Figure 4. Residents of this community are living in an area with many fast food restaurants, lack of access to healthcare, few parks and unsafe outdoor areas. Although the CDC reports that Childhood obesity…

open arms by the American public. This new genre of rap was much more adult oriented and featured a plethora of expletives. Though the product was more edgier, the focus remained the same. Gangsta rap featured problems that continued to plague the neighborhood and the way in which these problems were presented rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Gangsta rap became even more prevalent after the infamous Rodney King trials of 1992. When all the officers involved in the savage beating of Rodney…

to what the story about, the story, Amazing Grace, is about Kozol visiting another poor place, south Bronx. South Bronx was not always a bad place, but that’s for later. While Kozol was visiting south Bronx, and was doing what he usually are doing when he’s at poor places, he met a boy. A seven-year-old boy, whose name is Cliffie. Cliffie is the one who is giving Kozol a tour of the neighborhoods. While Cliffie was giving Kozol the…

Two boys with the same name, but through circumstances and choices they will face two different fates. Throughout the first few chapters of The Other Wes Moore the reader is able to see the diverse circumstances that will shape the lives of the two Wes Moore’s, such as their families, friends, and their enviorment. At the beginning of the book we meet two young boys one is the author who has both a mother and a father who love and protect him, while the other Wes Moore was given the immense…

community called “the Bronx” due to the cheap price of housing and hope for a new beginning. Little did they know, the Bronx was not a place meant for them to strive. Many blacks raised in these communities faced poor educational systems, and bad policing, therefore restricting their ability to make it out of the hood. The poor areas where blacks were predominant had little funding to enhance the education…