Professor Deborah Mutnick (English) has been awarded an action grant from Humanities New York for the Souls of Lefferts Community Writing / Publishing Project.Here's an overview of the project:
Souls of Lefferts combines black-and-white photographs with life stories of subjects documenting rapid change in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Prospect Lefferts Gardens' working-class, multiracial, predominantly immigrant West Indian community is threatened by unfettered, high-rise development, rising rents and prices, and gentrification by new, mostly white commercial and residential tenants. This process of gentrification was already underway when Courtney Mooney started photographing Prospect Lefferts Gardens (PLG) residents in 2015. Joined by Deborah Mutnick in early 2016, the project has so far produced hundreds of photos and more than a dozen oral histories. It has involved LIU Brooklyn students in interviewing, transcribing, and writing narratives. Most recently, students participated in the first round of community publishing, working with PLG residents to publish their writing. Two new series of community writing workshops will be held in the community in fall 2017 and spring 2018 culminating in the production of two more booklets to be archived in the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library.
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