The Bronx

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When I began reading Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace (1995), I was struck by a quotation early on that described the South Bronx area of New York City he would further explore throughout the book: The houses in which these children live, two thirds of which are owned by the City of New York, are often as squalid as the houses of the poorest children I have visited in rural Mississippi, but there is none of the greenness and the healing sweetness of the Mississippi countryside outside their…

intertwined epidemics of opioid- related overdose and HIV/HCV, and why we need cultural anthropologists in the South Bronx. The author wrote his experience conducting a portapotty experiment in South Bronx. Professor Curtis and his team rented two luxury portapotties and placed them nearby a site in a “rabbit hole” also known as one of the homeless hotspots neighborhood in South Bronx. Because they were interested in drug related overdoses that occur in public bathrooms. They believed having the…

I did not know where to go. I had neither friends nor family in Bronx. There were so many question going through my head. Was it right to kill that Royal? Would Jimmy have been proud or angry at me? The next morning I woke up and found myself sleeping in a grungy dumpster. I saw people selling newspapers with the title…

healthy food, many children in the population we are describing come from families that can’t even afford to buy a healthy meal. Urban neighborhoods with high rates of unemployment and poverty are suffering from food insecurity (McMillan). The South Bronx alone has the highest rate of food insecurity in the country; that is 37 percent compared with the 16.6 percent for New York City as a whole (McMillan). A 2000-calorie diet consisting of low-energy but nutritious food costs $36.32 a day…

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…

In chapter 2, the author conveys a scene of Nick and Tom on the Train headed to the Bronx. In order to get to the Bronx, the train they were first had to stop at the valley of ashes, the midpoint between West Egg and the Bronx. When the train made a stop at the valley of ashes, Tom ordered Nick around and announced what it is they are going to do; these are clear indicators of Tom's nature and continue to mark him as the story continues. He’s a character that looks down on everyone else. He…

Emmitt Till. One of the closest events to the start of Hip Hop I can recall though is the burning of the Bronx. During the 1970’s, the Bronx was literally burning down, with thousands of buildings being burnt each year in the Bronx. This caused the area to become poverty stricken, gang ridden, and overall to just have a horrible economy. When the mayor of New York was asked about the problem of the Bronx burning, he had replied simply with (not exact wording) “well if they really wanted homes,…

Lym Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Scribner, 2003) is a compelling nonfiction book that delivers an incredibly honest and thought-provoking look into a dysfunctional family plagued with drugs, sexual abuse, crime and murder. This book is truly amazing. 

The book begins in the mid 1980s and focuses on Jessica, a very misguided girl in the South Bronx who continually makes the wrong life choices. Love and a man’s acceptance are first…

police officers follow that many times create that police misconduct and police brutality stay under the rug, without been penalized. In the movie Fort Apache the Bronx it portrayed how police corruption, misconduct and unethical behavior were part of their daily work just because they followed certain codes…