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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.

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New York : New York University Press, c2003.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
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)