Fires in the Mirror

By - Smith, Anna Deavere

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Anchor Books/Doubleday, New York, 1993

ISBN 10 - 0385470142

ISBN 13 - 9780385470148

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Race relations

Shelf No - 3

Call Number - 812.54 DEA

Physical Description - lx, 141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

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Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.

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