How East New York Became a Ghetto

Autori

• Walter Thabit

Parametri

• 320 pagine
• 12 ore di lettura

• Letteratura Americana
• Saggistica
• Scienze sociali
• Sociologia
• Storia

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In response to the riots of the mid-‘60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York’s dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area.A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2005

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