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The Roots of Urban Renaissance

Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem

Brian D. Goldstein

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$32.00 • £27.95 • €29.95

ISBN 9780674971509

Publication Date: 02/01/2017

400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

42 halftones, 1 map

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Brian D. Goldstein, an urban and architectural historian, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.

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At Urban Omnibus, read a conversation between Brian Goldstein and urban planner Maxine Griffith about “many Harlems”—who makes Harlem, and for whom?
Read VIBE’s interview with Goldstein on the costs and benefits of gentrification
At Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, read Goldstein on the importance of considering who we talk about when we talk about gentrification
Read Goldstein on the politics of Harlem’s first Whole Foods at History News Network
At the HUP Blog, read an excerpt from The Roots of Urban Renaissance describing the homesteading movement in 1970s Harlem

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