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  title info:
    title: Global Queens
    sub title: an urban mosaic
  name:
    name part: Heathcott, Joseph
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 192 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
  abstract: "Winner, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant. A vibrant exploration of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the world: Queens, NY Remade by decades of immigration, Queens, NY, has emerged as an emblematic space of social mixing and encounters across multiple lines of difference. With its expansive subdivisions, tangled highways, and centerless form, it is also New York's most enigmatic borough. It can feel alternately like a big city, a tight-knit village, a featureless industrial zone, or a sprawling suburban community. Through over two hundred contemporary photographs, Joseph Heathcott captures this multifaceted borough and one of the most diverse places in the United States. Drawn from over a decade of roaming around Queens and snapping photos, Heathcott conveys the juxtaposition of the ordinary and extraordinary, the mundane and the surprising, and the staggering social diversity that best characterizes Queens. At the heart of the story are two separate but entwined histories: the rapid expansion of the borough's built environment through the twentieth century, and the millions of people who have traveled from near and far to call Queens home. Newcomers have had to confront discrimination, White racial hostility, legal challenges, and language barriers. They have had to struggle to find adequate housing, places to worship, and jobs that pay enough to survive. And they have done all of this in the borough's jumbled collection of neighborhoods, housing types, civic and religious institutions, factories and warehouses, commercial streets, and strip malls. Heathcott makes primary use of documentary photography to bring these social and spatial realities of everyday life into relief. He also draws on demographic data, archival sources, planning documents, news stories, and reports. The result is a visual meditation on Queens that provides clues about an urban future where notions of citizenship and belonging are negotiated across multiple lines of…
  note: Joseph Heathcott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    geographic: Queens (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Queens (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalism
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    topic: Photography of city and town life
  subject:
    topic: Documentary photography
  subject:
    topic: Documentary photography
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalism
  subject:
    topic: Photography of city and town life
  subject:
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    geographic: Queens
  classification: F128.68.Q4 H43 2023
  classification: 974.7/243
  identifier: 9781531504519
  identifier: 1531504515
  identifier: 2023024282
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 230528
    record change date: 20250318220248.4
    record identifier: in00004770762
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng