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How Policymakers Tried to Clear the Bronx of Its Original Residents By Letting It Burn
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:59:00
Publish Date: 2019-10-30 07:00:00
Description: We continue our discussion with Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran, co-producers and co-directors of the PBS film “Decade of Fire,” which re-examines the devastating fires that swept the South Bronx throughout the 1970s. At the time, the blazes were often blamed on the residents themselves and became a symbol of urban decay and dysfunction. But the filmmakers say the real story behind the Bronx fires is one of systematic disinvestment in poor black and brown communities, an unofficial policy of “planned shrinkage” with the goal of emptying the Bronx of original residents through neglect.
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