TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinberg,Jonny
TI  - Little Liberia: an African odyssey in New York City 
SN  - 9781868423828
AV  - E184.L53 S845 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Johannesburg
PB  - Jonathan Ball
KW  - Liberian Americans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Liberia
KW  - History
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - New York, NY
KW  - gnd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) and index
N2  - "In his latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, Steinberg takes us to Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where a community of Liberians have made their home. Through interviews and shadowing of two community leaders, Steinberg strives to understand the peculiarities of this community; while it appears at times as if a piece of Liberia has been sliced off and dropped in New York, the Park Hill community is ravaged by conflict between different interest groups. To understand what is going on in 2008 New York, Steinberg travels back - back to Liberia and back to the country's tragic recent history of civil war, military coups and mass exterminations. The story of Liberia is a gruesome and miserable one but Steinberg's empathy for his subjects never allows the narrative to descend into voyeurism. The combination of hard nosed investigative journalism, a gift for storytelling and an obvious empathy for the characters that he shadows makes Steinberg an author who demands to be read, whatever the subject matter. A brilliant and important book which will delight Steinberg's thousands of followers and doubtless earn him many more"--Book Lounge
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