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Additional Resources
“1970-1977 Open Admissions – Fiscal Crisis – State Takeover.” CUNY Digital History Archive. American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.
“Save Hostos!” CUNY Digital History Archive. American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.
Fabricant, Michael and Stephen Briar. Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education. John Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Freudenberg, Nicholas, et al. “The Impact of New York City’s 1975 Fiscal Crisis on the Tuberculosis, HIV, and Homicide Syndemic.” American Journal of Public Health, 2006, pp. 424-434.
Loverd, Richard A. “Presidential Decision Making during the 1975 New York City Financial Crisis: A Conceptual Analysis.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, 1991, pp. 251-267.
Meyer, Gerald J. “Save Hostos: Politics and Community Mobilization to Save a College in the Bronx.” Centro Journal 15, no. 1, 2003.
Phillips-Fein, Kim. Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. First edition., Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Phillips-Fein, Kim. “The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State.” American Capitalism: New Histories, edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan. Columbia University Press, 2018, pp. 96-117.