[PDF.12vu] Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930

Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930

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 | #761541 in Books |  Ivan R. Dee |  1996-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.28 x.85 x5.58l,.73 | File type: PDF | 300 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| An interesting history of NYC|By Jersey City Sparks|This book is about so much more than Harlem. Osofsky tells a story of why African Americans migrated from southern towns to New York. Then the book actually details the migration of Blacks from the Wall street area through the mid-town west area to Harlem. Along the way we learn of the politics & powerful will of a people des| |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 Chicag

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 Ha...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930   |  Gilbert Osofsky. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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