UID:
edocfu_9961433510602883
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
ISBN:
9780674042742
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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Introduction Danger and Dispossession --
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Part one History --
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1 The Fenced Land --
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2 Ethnic Traditions --
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Part two Territorial, Social, and Cultural Threats --
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3 Vulnerable Places --
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4 The Lost People --
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5 The Reverence Is Gone --
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Part three Reactions to Threat --
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6 Striking Back --
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7 Canarsie Schools for Canarsie Children --
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8 The Trials of Liberalism --
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Notes --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674042742
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042742?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674042742
