Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City. Bench Ansfield
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- Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
- Bench Ansfield
- Page: 368
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- ISBN: 9781324093527
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Notes From Your Bookseller Bench Ansfield breaks down a common misconception around a chaotic time in American history through a detailed examination of housing insecurity across the globe. “A young historian’s superlative debut . . . this excellent book delivers the truth about ‘the burning years." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[R]iveting . . . an outstanding exposé of the predatory capitalist machinations behind the ‘Bronx is burning’ saga."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s—and its legacy today. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation’s urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color. Yet as historian Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in Flames, the vast majority of the fires were not set by residents, as is commonly assumed, but by landlords looking to collect insurance payouts. Driven by perverse incentives—new government-sponsored insurance combined with tanking property values—landlords hired “torches,” mostly Black and Brown youth, to set fires in the buildings, sometimes with people still living in them. Tens of thousands of families lost their homes to these blazes, yet for much of the 1970s, tenant vandalism and welfare fraud stood as the prevailing explanations for the arson wave, effectively indemnifying landlords. Ansfield’s book, based on a decade of research, introduces the term “brownlining” for the destructive insurance practices imposed on poor communities of color under the guise of racial redress. Ansfield shows that as the FIRE industries—finance, insurance, and real estate— eclipsed manufacturing in the 1970s, they began profoundly reshaping Black and Brown neighborhoods, seeing them as easy sources of profit. At every step, Ansfield charts the tenant-led resistance movements that sprung up in the Bronx and elsewhere, as well as the explosion of popular culture around the fires, from iconic movies like The Towering Inferno to hit songs such as “Disco Inferno.” Ultimately, they show how similarly pernicious dynamics around insurance and race are still at play in our own era, especially in regions most at risk of climate shocks.
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Born in Flames The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City. by Ansfield, Bench. ISBN13: 9781324093510. ISBN10: 132409351X. Format: Hardcover.
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Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Bench Ansfield. 368 pages. Examines the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other U.S. cities in the 1970s — and its legacy today .
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