Gilbert Osofsky’s Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto

"Harlem" by Gilbert Osofsky: "Production of The ghettos" depicts a cruel depiction of the unique Harlem community in New York. Ososfky's schedule is set between 1890 and 1930, and his research is divided into three parts. His analysis is convincingly explaining why Harlem has become a social and economic cause of the widely notorious slums of today, but he explains many positive aspects of the persistent community I did not emphasize.

There is no doubt that Harlem is a rapidly growing black big city, what kind of city is it? Haarlem 's historian Gilbert Osovski said, "I believe the deepest change that Harlem experienced in the 1920s was the emergence of a slum street, changing the ideal community into a diverse community of social and economic problems "Slum area" is unfortunately "I can not say" "I can not believe it." 12 Thus, in a community experiencing the typical impact of poverty and discrimination, most harem residents live in poor houses at the edge of poverty or poverty.

What is really a slum town - who lives there? In the pioneering sociological study of the Dark Jewish town in 1965, Kenneth Clark explained Harlem as "a New York City colony", economically dependent, as a typical Jewish district with apartheid. In the following decades, scholars discussed the limitations and usefulness of this term - does it apply to poor communities, ethnically concentrated areas? There may be various definitions of this word, but since it evokes a single passion, in 2008 the sociologist Mario Luis Small advised his colleagues not to use it completely. He believes in many ways that the "poor black community" is neither unique nor homogeneous as suggested by "slums", and academic theories of "slums" living often plan their supporters The stereotype of the struggle warning that it might be perpetuated. "

Scholars studying slums are often sympathetic to the population, so slums themselves have complex sympathies themselves. Clark spent a lot of time studying Malcolm and Harlem, and he insisted that separation - "complete separation" - is the only way to solve the American problem. Clark did not go so far, but he doubted the prospect of abolishing school wisdom and apartheid. As Daniel said, he believes it is better that it "demands the excellence of slum schools". Likewise, the anthropologist Carroll Stack was a leading book called "All Our Kin" in 1974, suggesting that the black community promote social interaction and collect residents. Together, it will expand the "network" of family and friends. At the same time, the scholars decided the relationship between "slum area" and their Spanish analog "Barrio" and tried to compare the poor black community with other enclaves.