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Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

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  • Anna Deavere Smith
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    Her breakthrough work was Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities (1992), which told the story of the racial tension that rocked the Crown Heights neighbourhood of Brooklyn following an incident in 1991 in which the car of a Hasidic Jew went out of control and…

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