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

Canarsie : : The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism / / Jonathan Rieder.

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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 mid...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Rieder, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [1987]
©1985
Year of Publication:1987
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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

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