Research Catalog

Title

Harlem, the making of a ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930 / by Gilbert Osofsky.

Author

Osofsky, Gilbert, 1935-1974.

Publication

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 1996.

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Details

Description

xiv, 276 pages : maps; 21 cm

Summary

• A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's 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.

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History

Note

• Originally published: 2nd ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
• "Elephant paperbacks."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.

Contents

1. "No Crystal Stair": Negro New York, the 1890's -- 2. "Come Out from Among Them": Negro Migration and Settlement, 1890-1914 -- 3. Alienation: New York and the Negro -- 4. Urban Progressives: Negro and White -- 5. A Genteel Community: Harlem, 1890 -- 6. The Other Harlem: Roots of Instability -- 7. Race Enterprise: The Afro-American Realty Company -- 8. A Neighborhood Transformed -- 9. Harlem Tragedy: An Emerging Slum -- 10. "Harlem Must Be Saved": The Perpetual Frontier -- 11. A Taste of Honey: Ward Politics -- Epilogue: Symbols of the Jazz Age - The New Negro and Harlem Discovered.

ISBN

1566631041

LCCN

95026633

OCLC

ocm33900075

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries