Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family / Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch.
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TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Haynes, Bruce D., 1960- -- Family
- Haynes, George Edmund, 1880-1960 -- Family
- Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-
- Haynes, George Edmund, 1880-1960
- African American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Middle class African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Social mobility -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Intergenerational relations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Familles noires américaines -- New York (État) -- New York -- Biographies
- Noirs américains de la classe moyenne -- New York (État) -- New York -- Biographies
- Noirs américains -- New York (État) -- New York -- Conditions sociales
- Mobilité sociale -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire
- Relations entre générations -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- Social conditions
- Intergenerational relations
- Families
- African American families
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Middle class African Americans
- Social mobility
- New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
- New York (State) -- New York
- 305.896/07307471 23
- F128.9.N4 H38 2017
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"Down the Up Staircase tells the history of three generations of a black middle-class family against the backdrop of the three-story brownstone at 411 Convent Avenue in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. The home once belonged to its patriarch, George Edmund Haynes, a migrant from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who went on to become the first African American to earn a PhD at Columbia University and found the National Urban League. He was the first prominent black economist in the country, the first to predict the great sweeping migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North, a power broker of the Harlem Renaissance, and the first black to serve in a federal sub-cabinet post, where he mobilized the new Black migrants for the war effort. His wife, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the period and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. Their son had dreamed of becoming an engineer but spent his entire career as a parole officer in the Bronx. Their eldest grandson graduated from the prestigious Horace Mann High School but spent much of his adult life in and out of drug rehabilitation clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and the streets. Their second grandson was slain on the streets of the Bronx during his last semester of college, at age twenty-three. Only the youngest grandson--the book's author, Bruce Haynes--was able to build on the gains of his forefathers. Haynes brings sociological insight to a familiar American tale, one where the notion of social mobility and black middle class is a tenuous term"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
Mad money -- Not alms but opportunity -- New negroes -- Soul dollars -- Stepping out -- Do for yourself -- Free fall -- Moving on down -- Keep on keepin' on.
In English.
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