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Author Thabit, Walter.

Title How East New York bename a ghetto [electronic resource] / Walter Thabit ; with a foreword by Frances Fox Piven.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2003.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 304 p. : map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Welcome to East New York -- The population wave -- The ghettoization of East New York -- Destruction of the "target area" -- The uniformed (and other) services -- The youth of East New York -- Vest pocket planning -- Vest pocket implementation -- The model cities fiasco -- School planning -- East New York under siege -- The FHA scandals -- The community school board disaster -- Rebuilding in East New York -- The hard road to recovery -- Policing the ghetto.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Inner cities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Urban policy -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0814782663 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814782671 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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