Majora Carter, "Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One"
English | ISBN: 1523000295 | 2022 | 216 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1523000295 | 2022 | 216 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
MajoraCarter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.
"My musical, In the Heights, explores issues of community, gentrification, identity and home, and the question: Are happy endings only ones that involve getting out of your neighborhood to achieve your dreams? In her refreshing new book, Majora Carter writes about these issues with great insight and clarity, asking us to re-examine our notions of what community development is and how we invest in the futures of our hometowns. This is an exciting conversation worth joining.”
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