How East New York Became a Ghetto

Kirjan How East New York Became a Ghetto (2003) on kirjoittanut Walter Thabit. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut New York University Press. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 277 sivua ja se on sidottu.

In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area. A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.