How East New York Became a Ghetto (Paperback)
by Walter Thabit and Frances Fox Piven and Peter Hoffer

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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: 9780814782675
  • ISBN-10: 0814782671
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publish Date: April 2005
  • Page Count: 304

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