Mercy Romero, "Toward Camden" (Duke UP, 2021)
New Books in African American Studies
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The City of Camden - A Book Review
"i'm so glad i was able to to kind of keep whitman in the mix. M and i thinghe, like i said, he he liked being in the mix of things too" "It's a kind of tribute to that, you know, to that the poet's way and the messiness of it all," she says. The book shows how camden has been held up as this exempl ar of redevelopment and renewal. It gets talked outtat a lot in terms of like, policing reform and stuff. But there is another theme that runs through which is about neighborhood ties.
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