How East New York Became a Ghetto

von Walter Thabit

322 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: NYU Press
• ISBN: 9780814782668
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2003
• Größe: 234 x 163 mm
• Verlag: NYU Press - IPS