How East New York Became a Ghetto
Walter Thabit
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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ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8436-5
Язык книги: en
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