Harlem, the making of a ghetto
Subtitle: Negro New York, 1890-1930
By: by Gilbert Osofsky
Edition: 2nd ed., 1st Elephant pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: African Americans; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: 2nd ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.

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