Harlem, the making of a ghetto
Subtitle: Negro New York, 1890-1930
By: by Gilbert Osofsky
Edition: 1st Harper torchbook ed.
Series: Harper torchbooks -- TB1381
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: African Americans; History
Other titles: Making of a ghetto; Negro New York, 1890-1930
Description: Provides a study of how an overbuilt, upper-middle-income white neighborhood was nibbled at, invaded, and finally inundated by the Negro masses who pushed against the softest spot in a discriminatory real estate market. The role of the real estate broker, white and Negro, is deftly sketched, as is the unsuccessful defensive behavior of the white property owner.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 189-200.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Negro and the city; title: "No crystal stair" : Negro New York, the 1890s; title: "Come out from among them" : Negro migration and settlement, 1890-1914; title: Alienation : New York and the Negro; title: Urban progressives : Negro and white; title: pt. 2. The making of a ghetto; title: A genteel community : Harlem, 1890; title: The other Harlem ; roots of instability; title: Race enterprise : the Afro-American Realty Company; title: A neighborhood transformed; title: pt. 3. Harlem slum; title: Harlem tragedy : an emerging slum; title: "Harlem must be saved" : the perpetual frontier; title: A taste of honey : ward politics; title: Epilogue : symbols of the Jazz Age, the new Negro and Harlem discovered.