ISBN:
9780814783412
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
305.8/009747/23
Keywords:
Geschichte 1960-2000
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Soziale Situation
;
New York, NY
Abstract:
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.
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