Harlem: the Making of a Ghett Pb: Negro New York, 1890-1930: The Making of a Ghetto Negro New York 1890-1930 - Softcover

Osofsky, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566631041 ISBN 13: 9781566631044

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 1996

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More than a mere picture of Harlem, colorful and exciting as it is, this is also a careful and important study of the way in which a ghetto develops.--John Hope Franklin

Osofsky asks questions that really matter and writes with vigor and clarity of a man who knows precisely what he wants to say. The result is an interesting narrative combined with provocative analysis of an important subject.--Arthur Mann, University of Chicago "American Historical Review "

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1566631041
• ISBN 13: 9781566631044
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 302