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How East New York bename a ghetto / Walter Thabit; with a foreword by Frances Fox Piven

New York : New York University Press, c2003

Online-Ressource (xv, 304 p) : map

Englisch

Contents; Foreword by Frances Fox Piven; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Welcome to East New York; 2 The Population Wave; 3 The Ghettoization of East New York; 4 Destruction of the "Target Area"; 5 The Uniformed ( and Other) Services; 6 The Youth of East New York; 7 Vest Pocket Planning; 8 Vest Pocket Implementation; 9 The Model Cities Fiasco; 10 School Planning; 11 East New York under Siege; 12 The FHA Scandals; 13 The Community School Board Disaster; 14 Rebuilding in East New York; 15 The Hard Road to Recovery; 16 Policing the Ghetto; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: How East New York Became a Ghetto

0-8147-8267-1 ; 0-8147-8266-3

978-0-8147-8266-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

F129.B7

305.8/009747/23     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations ; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; Inner cities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century ; Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; Ethnic neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century ; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; Urban policy -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century ; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations

African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions - 20th century ; Electronic books

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 o