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Cover of Harlem; the making of a ghetto

Harlem; the making of a ghetto

by Gilbert Osofsky

African AmericansHistoryNoirs américainsHistoireGetto'sNegersSchwarzeGetto

Provides a study of how an overbuilt, upper-middle-income white neighborhood was nibbled at, invaded, and finally inundated by the Negro masses who pushed against the softest spot in a discriminatory real estate market. The role of the real estate broker, white and Negro, is deftly sketched, as is the unsuccessful defensive behavior of the white property owner.

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Book data: Open Library