The tenants of East Harlem [[electronic resource] /] / Russell Leigh Sharman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784412803321
• Autore: Sharman Russell Leigh <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-77205-8; 9786612772054; 0-520-93954-9; 1-60129-526-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/009747/1
• Soggetti: 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; 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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; José, 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.