Main entry:

Sharman, Russell Leigh, 1972-

Title & Author:

The tenants of East Harlem / Russell Leigh Sharman.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.

Description:

xiv, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
East Harlem -- Pleasant Avenue : the Italians -- 106th street : the Puerto Ricans -- 125th Street : the African Americans -- 116th Street : the Mexicans -- Third Avenue : the West Africans -- Second avenue : the Chinese -- Urban "renewal" and the final migration.

Summary:

Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, The Tenants of East Harlem is an absorbing and unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; Jose, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell Leigh Sharman deftly weaves these oral histories together with fine-grained ethnographic observations and urban history to examine the ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, gentrification, race, class, and gender have affected the neighborhood over time. Providing unique access to the nuances of inner-city life, The Tenants of East Harlem shows how roots sink so quickly in a community that has always hosted the transient, how new immigrants are challenging the claims of the old, and how that cycle is threatened as never before by the specter of gentrification.

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ISBN:

0520244273 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520247477 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520244276
9780520247475

Subject:

Sociology, Urban New York (State) New York.
Urban anthropology New York (State) New York.
Ethnicity New York (State) New York.
Community development, Urban New York (State) New York.
Gentrification New York (State) New York.
Sociologie urbaine New York (État) New York.
Anthropologie urbaine New York (État) New York.
Ethnicité New York (État) New York.
Développement communautaire urbain New York (État) New York.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) New York (État) New York.
Community development, Urban.
Economic history.
Ethnicity.
Gentrification.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban.
Urban anthropology.
Soziale Situation
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Stadtviertel
Anthropologie
Stadssociologi Förenta staterna New York.
Stadtteil.
East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions.
East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions.
East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York East Harlem.
New York- Harlem Ost
New York- Harlem

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247202
Call No.: BIB 176758
Status: Available