Harlem between Ghetto and Renaissance

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Zukin, Sharon (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 561-570

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch49

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

ghettoization and Harlem, home to men and women ‐ not welcomed in other areas, because of skin color , Harlem, special place in cultural geography of New York City ‐ marginalized concentrations of poor and underprivileged groups , history as a racial ghetto ‐ talented enterprising men and women of African descent, unskilled, poor , Harlem's physical and social environment ‐ deteriorating in the 1900s , empowerment zone's project, Harlem USA ‐ 275,000 square foot shopping and entertainment complex , Harlem between ghetto ‐ and the Renaissance , “Second” Harlem Renaissance ‐ growth of new black middle class in the 1960s , cultural flowering of 1920s, “second” Harlem Renaissance ‐ by the state and media , commercial gentrification ‐ biggest chain stores, avoiding US cities, and their low‐income ghettos , Harlem residents, suffering disease, unemployment and overcrowded housing