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Return to the futureessay 1996 • Sciorra, Joseph
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In this essay Sciorra describes how Puerto Rican residents of the South Bronx (also East Harlem and the Lower East Side) appropriated municipally owned property where multi-storied buildings once stood, cleared the debris from the site, cultivated ga...'We're not here just to plant. We have culture.'article 1996 • Sciorra, Joseph
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is an account of an indigenous urban renewal project in New York City's South Bronx. In the late 1970s a group of neighborhood people came together to reclaim a garbage-filled crater in an abandoned city-owned lot. They removed all the refuse an...