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South Bronx In The 70s Analysis

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South Bronx in the 70´s
If we talk about the South Bronx in the 70´s, we can found a lot of graffiti, music, poverty, violence, racism, drugs but for understanding what was going on and why all those things where happening, we need to understand what was going on behind that, and how that marginalized an entire community and how the hip hop began.
First of all, we need to understand that the Bronx became one of the community where is mostly immigrants that arrive after World War I and World War II. The south part of the Bronx community was Black and Puerto Rican in 1960. The south Bronx was a place with working-class families where almost the 44% of the community was living on poverty, the decay of the Bronx, had factors like racism, landlord abandonment and economy. One other important factor was the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway, a major freeway, this was one of the key factors for the decay of the Bronx, because the highway displaced thousands of residents from their homes, even parts of neighborhoods was completely destroy after they finish building the highway. …show more content…

A large number of multi-family apartment buildings were abandoned along with the bad economy and unemployed people, produced a large quantity of street gangs which were using drug dealing for support themselves. Also this large amount of abandoned buildings, because there owners weren’t receiving any money of them, start to pay to this gangs for burn the buildings entirely and them be able to collect the money of the insurance. In total over the 40% of the south Bronx was burned and abandoned between 1970 and

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