Urban enclaves
Subtitle: identity and place in America
By: Mark Abrahamson.
Series: Contemporary social issues; Contemporary social issues (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States.; United States -- Ethnic relations.; United States -- Race relations.
Description: Boston's Beacon Hill, Chicago's South Side, San Francisco's Chinatown and Castro, Miami's Little Havana, Detroit's Near East Side, and New York's Crown Heights are all neighborhoods that evoke strong images of residents who share common ethnic, racial, religious, social class, or lifestyle ties. How do communities like these form in diverse urban areas and why? What are the forces that conspire to segregate people?

Mark Abrahamson explores these questions while providing a lively history of these urban enclaves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.