{"product_id":"times-square-red-times-square-blue-samuel-r-delany","title":"Times Square Red, Times Square Blue - Samuel R. Delany","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children's theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York University Press, 2019 \u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 240pp \u003cbr\u003e210 x 149mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63802940227961,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-11_066ebac2-e9b4-4556-b4cb-08ad7d4dbc8b.jpg?v=1781872944","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.co.uk\/products\/times-square-red-times-square-blue-samuel-r-delany","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}