Parkchester : a Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity.
The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would become was first displayed to an excited public at the 1939 World's Fair. Parkchester was celebrated...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2019.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "a city within a city" and New York City's history
- The building of Parkchester
- Fortunate apartment dwellers and the beginnings of community life
- Family life in "Storkchester"
- "Don't pick the flowers" : tough-minded social controls and opposition
- "Negroes and whites don't mix"
- A mixed reception
- "Mrs. Helmsley should be forced to do her time in Parkchester"
- Renewal efforts
- Immigrant arrivals and old-timer departures
- As a Bronx neighborhood approaches
- Conclusion : an enduring "get along" spirit.