Still the promised city? : African-Americans and new immigrants in postindustrial New York / Roger Waldinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldinger, Roger David

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Employment--New York (State)--New York.

Foreign workers--New York (State)--New York.

Foreign workers.

Economic conditions.

African Americans--Employment.

New York (N.Y.)--Economic conditions.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Still the Promised City? addresses the question of why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. This insightful book uses New York as a prism to examine the changing relationships among race, immigration, and social mobility. Roger Waldinger's analysis offers a new understanding of America's most serious social problem and fresh approaches to attacking it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-367) and index.

ISBN:

0674838610

OCLC:

33819527