Urban Enclaves

Name: Urban Enclaves
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ISBN: 9780716706366

ISBN-10: 0716706369

ISBN-13: 9780716706366

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: Mark Abrahamson

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Abrahamson explores metropolitan areas that have retained their distinctive ethnic, racial, and religious character in an era when American culture and landscape are increasingly homogenized. He revisits American urban dwellers in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, and Detroit to find out why these communities continue to exist while others have not. In the new second edition, Abrahamson broadens the geographic and temporal scope to examine the formation of German communities in 19th century Brazil and American expatriate artists in post-WWI Paris.Urban Enclaves, Second Editioncan be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




An Overview



Boston's Beacon Hill and Other Elite Enclaves



"Back of the Yards" Chicago and Other Working-Class Enclaves



African Americans in Detroit



Germans in Southern Brazil



Chinatown in San Francisco and Little Taipei in Suburban Los Angeles



Miami's Little Havana



American Artists and Writers in Paris' Left Bank District of Montparnasse



Gays and Lesbians in San Francisco's Castro and Mission Districts



Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn



Some Concluding Thoughts


Index