| Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rieder, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674093615 ISBN-13: 9780674093614 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1987 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - Social Science |
| Dewey: 974.7 |
| LCCN: 84015660 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.98" W x 9.22" (0.96 lbs) 306 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rieder, Jonathan: - Jonathan Rieder is Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. |