"We're A Lot More Than Gospel Singing:" Small Tourism Businesses in Harlem and Policy Proposals for the UMEZ.

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. Through interviewing a Harlem resident and tour guide, Julia Sakowitz presents an analysis of tourism in Harlem and its cultural ramifications while also proposing policy changes to initiatives such as the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.

Type of resource	text
Date created	2017

Author	Sakowitz, Julia
Advisor	Yamboliev, Irena

Subject	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject	Harlem
Subject	tourism
Subject	UMEZ
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xq327jf9729

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Preferred Citation: Sakowitz, Julia and Yamboliev, Irena. (2017). "We're A Lot More Than Gospel Singing:" Small Tourism Businesses in Harlem and Policy Proposals for the UMEZ. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/xq327jf9729

Boothe Prize Winners, Stanford University

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