The people of West Baltimore populate Princeton sociologist Patricia Fernández-Kelly‘s recently released book, “The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State.”

Through the stories of D.B. Wilson, Big Floyd, Little Floyd and other residents, Fernández-Kelly said she has tried to shine a light on the lives of people in some of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in America — lives often overlooked by society.

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Presenting Princeton’s Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera

The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

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PLAS fellow João Cezar de Castro Rocha on the Latin American literary boom: the importance of Firestone Library […]

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