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... A largely discrete set of practices that took root in the Bronx and Brooklyn—quick-mix DJ-ing, mc rapping, the dance style known as breaking, and graffiti art—started to permeate the outer margins of the downtown scene during late 1979 and 1980. Graffiti artist Fred Brathwaite/Fab 5 Freddy led...

...An Italian Boy from the Bronx ...

... South Bronx architecture urban change casita gentrification ...

... Ruza Blue Afrika Bambaataa Negril the Roxy Bronx Brooklyn ...

... Fred Brathwaite/Fab 5 Freddy Michael Holman Jean-Michel Basquiat Gray (band) Times Square Show hip hop graffiti Bronx ...

... Ruza Blue continued to book Bronx and Brooklyn-based DJs, MCs, graffiti artists, and breakers until the fire department closed the venue due to overcrowding. The party host took her party to Danceteria before deciding to relaunch at the Roxy roller rink. Bambaataa and others followed her...

... The chapter explores the transformation of Nuyorican casitas, emblematic structures of South Bronx culture, into institutionalized objects. The Willis Avenue Community Garden’s casita, displayed at the Bronx Museum in 2014, embodies this shift. Originally a symbol of resistance against urban...

... Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz between 2006 and 2013. Chuleta, a young female artist from the Bronx, records confessional-style vlogs on YouTube to bridge gaps and build communities within the art world. She challenges the mainstream art world’s biases and hypocrisies, particularly in terms of race, gender...

... David Mancuso Paradise Garage Michael Brody Larry Levan A largely discrete set of practices that took root in the Bronx and Brooklyn—quick-mix DJ-ing, mc rapping, the dance style known as breaking, and graffiti art—started to permeate the outer margins of the downtown scene during late 1979...

... The author provides a personal account of his life, particularly his intersections with middle- and upper-class people as he moved from the Bronx to Columbia University. And then his long struggle for tenure highlights the problems that first-generation students and faculty members have...

...; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, between October 1997 and March 1998. The poems of Tchicaya U Tam’si and the art of Olu Oguibe and Rotimi Fani-Kayode are discussed. Africa diaspora Tchicaya U Tam’si Olu Oguibe Rotimi Fani-Kayode ...

... on a show in November. Also making strides, Keith Haring staged an exhibition at Tony Shafrazi’s new SoHo gallery. Pyramid drag queen Ivan Baker Fun Gallery Patti Astor Jean-Michel Basquiat East Village West Village Ruza Blue continued to book Bronx and Brooklyn-based DJs, MCs, graffiti...

... reflexively, this chapter explores how a young African American woman from the South Bronx ended up in the Congo, and how her own history and body both intersected with and diverged from the experiences and beliefs of the BisiKongo people she interviewed and interacted with on a daily basis. The chapter...

... American woman from the South Bronx ended up in the Congo, and how her own history and body both intersected with and diverged from the experiences and beliefs of the BisiKongo people she interviewed and interacted with on a daily basis. The chapter focuses on the ethnographer’s body to highlight how race...