Harlem - The Making of a Ghetto Negro New York, 1890-1930

Name: Harlem - The Making of a Ghetto Negro New York, 1890-1930
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ISBN: 9781566631044

ISBN-10: 1566631041

ISBN-13: 9781566631044

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Gilbert Osofsky

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For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 2/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.58" wide x 8.28" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Preface to Second Edition



"No Crystal Stair": Negro New York, the 1890's



"Come Out from Among Them": Negro Migration and Settlement, 1890-1914



Alienation: New York and the Negro



Urban Progressives: Negro and White



A Genteel Community: Harlem, 1890



The Other Harlem: Roots of Instability



Race Enterprise: The Afro-American Realty Company



A Neighborhood Transformed



Harlem Tragedy: An Emerging Slum



"Harlem Must Be Saved": The Perpetual Frontier



A Taste of Honey: Ward Politics


Epilogue: Symbols of the Jazz Age - The New Negro and Harlem Discovered


Retrospect: The Enduring Ghetto


Bibliographical Essay


Notes


Index