Brownsville, Brooklyn Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto

Name: Brownsville, Brooklyn Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto
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ISBN: 9780226684475

ISBN-10: 0226684474

ISBN-13: 9780226684475

Edition: 2003

Authors: Wendell E. Pritchett

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Description:

From its founding in the late 1880s through the 1950s, Brownsville was a white, predominantly Jewish, working class neighbourhood. During the 1960s however the area became stigmatized as a Black and Latino ghetto. This study focuses on the challenges of neighbourhood co-operation.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Building an Immigrant Mecca: Brownsville, 1880-1940



The Optimistic Years: Brownsville in the Forties



Blacks and Whites in the Optimistic Years



Activism and Change: Brownsville, 1950-1957



Racial Change in a Progressive Neighborhood, 1957-1965



A Northern Civil Rights Movement: The Beth-El Hospital Strike of 1962



The Brownsville Community Council: The War on Poverty in Brownsville, 1964-1968



The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Community and the 1968 Teacher's Strike



A Modern Ghetto? Brownsville since 1970


Epilogue


Notes


Index