Harlem, the making of a ghetto
Negro New York, 1890-1930
by Gilbert Osofsky
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A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. Mr. Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He traces Harlem's change to the largest segregated neighborhood in the nation and then its fall to a slum. Throughout he neatly balances statistics and humanly revealing details.
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Harlem, the making of a ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930
1996, Ivan R. Dee
in English
- 2nd ed., 1st Elephant pbk. ed.
1566631041 9781566631044
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Originally published: 2nd ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
"Elephant paperbacks."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
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