Lower East Side/East Village Organizations
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Research Resources and Suggested Readings
Welikia Map Project
Leo Tolstoy, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” (recommended by Joanne Kennedy from The Catholic Worker)
Peter Maurin, Easy Essays (recommended by Martha Hennessey from The Catholic Worker. She read aloud the essay, “Wealth Producing Maniacs” from Book 1.)
The Greatest Grid On-Line Exhibit + Interactive Map from Museum of the City of New York
On the Catholic Worker movement:
Dorothy Day, From Union Square to Rome. New York, Arno Press, 1978 c.1938. x, 173p.
Dorothy Day, House of Hospitality. New York, Sheed & Ward, c.1939. xxxvi, 275p.
Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: the autobiography of Dorothy Day. San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1981 c.1952. xxiii, 288p.
Nancy Roberts. Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Albany, State University of New York Press, c.1984. 226p.
Murray, Harry. Do Not Neglect Hospitality: the Catholic Worker Movement and the Homeless. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.viii,285p.
Piehl, Mel. Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, c.1984. 314p.
On gentrification (a small start):
Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly, The Gentrification Reader (Routledge, 2010)
Collectively Produced Resources