Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood - Hardcover

Susser, Ida

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9780195367317: Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood

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ISBN 10: 0195367316 ISBN 13: 9780195367317

Publisher: OUP USA, 2012

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Norman Street Norman Street is the first serious examination of a scenario that appears likely to be played out again and again as federal budget policies result in reduced services for urban areas across the country. Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, the book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New ... Full description

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The original edition of Norman Street painted a gripping and moving portrait of a mid-1970s NYC neighborhood under assault. At that time, neither Susser nor the residents of Greenpoint-Williamsburg could imagine that the combination of regulation and neglect they were enduring was a precursor of the much larger and more devastating global project of neoliberalism. This reissued and updated edition, with Susser's compelling new introduction, offers a moving and instructive time-trip, transporting us back to a key moment in the struggle for livable urban neighborhoods. (Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Blending fine-grain ethnography with superb political economic analysis, Susser's Norman Street is a classic of urban social science. It gives a vivid picture of the economic ingredients, social struggles, and demographic change that set the stage for a hipsterized Williamsburg and transformed Greenpoint. A paradigm of neighborhood ethnography in a global context. (Neil Smith, author of New Urban Frontier)

About the Author:

Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

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