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Down the Up Staircase : Three Generations of a Harlem Family / Syma Solovitch, Bruce Haynes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 13 b&w photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231181020
  • 9780231543415
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/07307471 23
LOC classification:
  • F128.9.N4
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Mad Money -- 2. Not Alms but Opportunity -- 3. New Negroes -- 4. Soul Dollars -- 5. Stepping Out -- 6. Do for Yourself -- 7. Free Fall -- 8. Moving on Down -- 9. Keep on Keepin′ on -- Notes
Summary: Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century—the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements—as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class.In many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protégé of eminent black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois; his grandmother, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family's rise and demise. Down the Up Staircase is a stirring portrait of this family, each generation walking a tightrope, one misstep from free fall.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Mad Money -- 2. Not Alms but Opportunity -- 3. New Negroes -- 4. Soul Dollars -- 5. Stepping Out -- 6. Do for Yourself -- 7. Free Fall -- 8. Moving on Down -- 9. Keep on Keepin′ on -- Notes

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Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century—the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements—as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class.In many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protégé of eminent black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois; his grandmother, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family's rise and demise. Down the Up Staircase is a stirring portrait of this family, each generation walking a tightrope, one misstep from free fall.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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