Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto - Negro New York, 1890-1930
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2353716
2nd printing. A couple tiny closed tears to top jacket edge, jacket lightly toned, ink initials on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
xi, 259 pp. 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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