Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism / Edition 1

Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism / Edition 1

by Jonathan Rieder
ISBN-10:
0674093615
ISBN-13:
9780674093614
Pub. Date:
03/15/1987
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674093615
ISBN-13:
9780674093614
Pub. Date:
03/15/1987
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism / Edition 1

Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism / Edition 1

by Jonathan Rieder
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674093614
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 03/15/1987
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 306
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Rieder is Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Danger and Dispossession
Part 1: History

1. The Fenced land

2. Ethnic Tradition

Part 2: TERRITORIAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL THREATS

3. Vulnerable Places

4. The Lost People

5. The Reverence is Gone

Part 3: REACTIONS TO THREAT

6. Striking Back

7. Canarsie Schools for Canarsie Children

8. The Trials of Liberalism

Notes Index

What People are Saying About This

Richard Reeves

The rise of Ronald Reagan and the politics of the 1980s surprised many of the country's best-known analysts…Jonathan Rieder was in the right places at the right time--the streets and kitchens of Canarsie, Brooklyn--to understand what was actually happening (and going to happen next) in American politics.

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