For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. "A careful and important study."--John Hope Franklin.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781566631044
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication Date: 02-01-1996
Pages: 300
Product Dimensions: 8.27h x 5.53w x 0.83d
About the Author
Gilbert Osofsky taught American history at the University of Illinois at Chicago before his death in 1974. His other books include Puttin' on Ole Massa and The Burden of Race.