Fires in the Mirror Crown Heights and Other Identities

Name: Fires in the Mirror Crown Heights and Other Identities
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ISBN: 9780822213291

ISBN-10: 082221329X

ISBN-13: 9780822213291

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anna Deavere Smith

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THE STORY: In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, an Hasidic man's car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a factionof the black community, Yankel Rosenbaum, an Hasidic rabbinical student, was stabbed and killed. The ensuing riots that wracked Crown Heights' previous atmosphere of tolerance for its divergent cultures made national headlines and pointed to the growing friction in racial and cultural relations across America. Drawing verbatim from a series of over fifty interviews with Crown Heights' residents, politicians, activists, religious leaders, gangs, street dwellers,…

Book details

List price: $9.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Size: 4.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English