Born in Flames - Bench Ansfield (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9781324093510

タイトル: Born in Flames著者: Bench Ansfield出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2025年08月19日新しい本新古品・未使用品。
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"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation's urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color.Yet as historian Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in Flames, the vast majority of the fires were not set by residents, as is commonly assumed, but by landlords looking to collect insurance payouts. Driven by perverse incentives--new government-sponsored insurance combined with tanking property values--landlords hired "torches," mostly Black and Brown youth, to set fires in the buildings, sometimes with people still living in them. Tens of thousands of families lost their homes to these blazes, yet for mu．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る