Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York

Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York
ISBN-10
0674000722
ISBN-13
9780674000728
Category
Political Science
Pages
374
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Roger David Waldinger

Description

Waldinger examines why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Using New York to look at the relationships among race, immigration, and social mobility, Waldinger offers a new understanding of a serious social problem and fresh approaches to attacking it.

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