Contents -- Introduction: Danger and Dispossession -- Part One: History -- 1. The Fenced Land -- 2. Ethnic Traditions -- Part Two: Territorial, Social, and Cultural Threats -- 3. Vulnerable Places -- 4. The Lost People -- 5. The Reverence Is Gone -- Part Three: Reactions to Threat -- 6. Striking Back -- 7. Canarsie Schools for Canarsie Children -- 8. The Trials of Liberalism -- Notes -- Index -- Photographs (Gallery 1) -- Photographs (Gallery 2)
Summary
What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in the mid 1980's? 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
Analysis
New York (City). Brooklyn Canarsie Italian communities Political beliefs
New York (City). Brooklyn Canarsie Jewish communities Political beliefs
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index
Notes
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