| Author | : Walter Thabit |
| File Size | : 41,8 Mb |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 01 April 2005 |
| ISBN | : 9780814784365 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
How East New York Became a Ghetto by Walter Thabit Book PDF Summary
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.