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Canarsie : the Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against liberalism / Jonathan Rieder.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rieder, Jonathan.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Liberalism.
Italian Americans.
Politics and government.
Jews.
Canarsie (New York, N.Y.)--Politics and government.
Canarsie (New York, N.Y.).
New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-.
New York (N.Y.).
National Book Committee.
New York (State)--New York.
Jews--New York (State)--New York--Politics and government.
Jews--New York (State)--New York--Attitudes.
Italian Americans--New York (State)--New York--Politics and government.
Italian Americans--New York (State)--New York--Attitudes.
Liberalism--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.
Italian Americans--Attitudes.
Italian Americans--Politics and government.
Jews--Attitudes.
Jews--Politics and government.
New York (State)--New York--Canarsie.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:
viii, 290 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985.
Summary:
What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in the mid 1980s? Why was the Republican Party able to steal away so many ethnic Democrats of modest means in recent presidential elections? Jonathan Rieder explores these questions in his powerful study of the Jews and Italians of Canarsie, a middle-income community that was once the scene of a wild insurgency against racial busing. Proud bootstrappers, the children of immigrants, Canarsians may speak with piquant New York accents, but their story has a more universal appeal. " Canarsie" is Middle America, Brooklyn-style.
Contents:
Introduction : danger and dispossession
pt. I. History. Fenced land
Ethnic traditions
pt. II. Territorial, social, and cultural threats. Vulnerable places
Lost people
Reverence is gone
pt. III. Reactions to threat. Striking back
Canarsie schools for Canarsie children
Trials of liberalism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Rieder, Jonathan. Canarsie.
ISBN:
0674093607
9780674093607
0674093615
9780674093614
OCLC:
10996639

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