The world in Brooklyn : gentrification, immigration, and ethnic politics in a global city / edited by Judith DeSena and Timothy Shortell.

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TextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 418 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739166710
0739166719
0739166700
9781280659003
1280659009
9780739166703
9786613635938
6613635936

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The world in BrooklynDDC classification:

307.3/416097471 23

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HN80.B856

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Contents:

Figures; Tables; Chapter 01. Introduction; Chapter 02. Mapping a Changing Brooklyn, Mapping a Changing World; Chapter 03. Forgetting Poverty in Brooklyn and the United States; Chapter 04. Gentrification in Everyday Life in Brooklyn; Chapter 05. "Williamsburg Walks"; Chapter 06. The Environmental Injustice of Green Gentrification; Chapter 07. Rezoning Coney Island; Chapter 08. The Gowanus Canal; Chapter 09. Striving for Sustainability on the Urban Waterfront; Chapter 10. Riding the Bus in Brooklyn; Chapter 11. Brooklyn and Belleville.

Chapter 12. Constructing an Oppositional CommunityChapter 13. An Ethnography of Local Politics in a Brooklyn Caribbean Community; Chapter 14. The Dual Roles of Brighton Beach; Chapter 15. Hood Politics; Chapter 16. Revising Canarsie; Index; About the Contributors.

Summary: The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces.

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The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces.

English.

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