Description: Extremely Rare Out-of-Print Original 1968 First Harper Torchbook Edition. Pages clean and unmarked. Light shelf/edge wear. Light tanning of the outer pages as expected from time. Images on listing, are of this book. PAPERBACK_______________ 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. "A careful and important study.... Osofsky at once takes his place alongside James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and others who have looked at Harlem at close range."―John Hope Franklin. "A pioneering scholarly achievement.... Although the subject engages his compassion, his presentation is rigorously straightforward and unsentimental and therefore all the more valuable as social analysis."―New York Times Book Review
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Personalize: No
Type: ACADEMIC HISTORY, GHETTO, SLAVERY, CULTURE, WARS
Features: Collector's Edition
Vintage: Yes
Original Language: English
Book Series: Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York 189
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 1800s
Book Title: Harlem-The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930
Item Length: 8.3in.
Item Height: 0.8in.
Item Width: 5.6in.
Author: Gilbert Osofsky
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: History, Social Science
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
