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Title: A Century of Harlem in New York City: Some Notes on Migration, Consolidation, Segregation, and Recent Developments
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2008
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Abstract: Harlem is an iconic Ghetto. The original settlers in Harlem, before 1910, were often middle class, including many notable African Americans. In the 1920s, an efflorescence of culture known as the Harlem Renaissance occurred, and the Apollo Theatre and the Savoy Ball Room were founded. As the “great migration” from the U.S. South continued, and the size of the black population expanded, an area of concentrated poverty developed. Kenneth Clark's (1965) edited volume entitled Dark Ghetto certainly was influenced by Harlem. Clark taught for years at City College, which is in the midst of Harlem. Clark's studies of the influence of segregation on school children were recited in the famous footnote 11 to the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 that ruled that segregation was illegal, at least with respect to schools. From the 1950s until recently, the involuntary segregation of housing and schools has been seen by most sociologists and other social scientists as an unrelenting negative. There is, of course, another side to this view of segregation, which argues that segregation of African Americans in and of itself is not necessarily pernicious, and since African Americans are discriminated against and stigmatized by many whites and other nonblacks, it is better for them to develop on their own in their own communities. Harlem was and is still seen by many non‐African Americans as a dangerous place, which is unsafe to travel in even during the day. More recently, many have noted that Harlem, along with most other neighborhoods . . .
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Authors: Beveridge, Andrew A.
Periodical (Full): City & Community
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Pages: 358-365
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration
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