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Oxford University Press, USA
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition
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Based on a three-year study of Brooklyn's Greenpoint-Williamsburg area, Norman Street is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events
of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives. Over the decades, Greenpoint-Williamsburg has become home to artists, actors, writers and young people with alternative cultural aspirations.
Susser documents how these groups, in many ways, have joined with the remaining working class population to build a thriving community that is now threatened with displacement by municipal rezoning which has facilitated massive plans for new corporate investment. Increasingly prescient at a moment of economic crisis when people are again occupying public spaces in major American cities, spurred to collective action by mounting economic inequalities and the government's role in perpetuating them, Susser's study of change, action, and conflict in a
neighborhood that has become emblematic of urban transformation-for better and worse-has much to say to us today.
Author: Ida Susser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/18/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780195367300
of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives. Over the decades, Greenpoint-Williamsburg has become home to artists, actors, writers and young people with alternative cultural aspirations.
Susser documents how these groups, in many ways, have joined with the remaining working class population to build a thriving community that is now threatened with displacement by municipal rezoning which has facilitated massive plans for new corporate investment. Increasingly prescient at a moment of economic crisis when people are again occupying public spaces in major American cities, spurred to collective action by mounting economic inequalities and the government's role in perpetuating them, Susser's study of change, action, and conflict in a
neighborhood that has become emblematic of urban transformation-for better and worse-has much to say to us today.
Author: Ida Susser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/18/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780195367300
About the Author
Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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