HOW EAST NEW YORK BECAME A GHETTO by Walter Thabit, Frances Fox Piven (Foreword) ( 9780814782668 )

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Title:

HOW EAST NEW YORK BECAME A GHETTO

By:

Walter Thabit, Frances Fox Piven (Foreword)

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0814782663

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9780814782668

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Publisher:

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2003

Pages:

304

Description:

The story of East New York, once a working-class immigrant neighborhood, it became a largely black and Puerto Rican one, and shows how a series of racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area.

Synopsis:

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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New York University Press

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