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11%OFFRoger Sanjek - The Future of Us All. Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.  - 9780801484612 - V9780801484612
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The Future of Us All. Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.

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Description for The Future of Us All. Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City. Paperback. Series: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues. Num Pages: 400 pages, 28. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 714.

Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The result of more than a dozen years' work, this remarkable book immerses us in Elmhurst-Corona's social and political life from the 1960s through the 1990s.

First settled in 1652, Elmhurst-Corona by 1960 housed a mix of Germans, Irish, Italians, and other "white ethnics." In 1990 ... Read more

From the telling local details of daily life to the larger economic and regional frameworks, this account of a neighborhood's transformation illuminates the issues that American communities will be grappling with in the coming decades.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484612
SKU
V9780801484612
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About Roger Sanjek
Roger Sanjek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the editor of Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, also from Cornell.

Reviews for The Future of Us All. Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.
This is a very optimistic book.... Sanjek's discussion of quality-of-life issues and the decline of manufacturing are especially important.... The Future of Us All is an interesting and important look at changes in urban America during the last third of the twentieth century.
Dominic A. Pacyga
Journal of American History

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