TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haynes,Bruce
AU  - Solovitch,Syma
TI  - Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family 
SN  - 9780231181020
AV  - F128.9.N4 
U1  - 305.896/07307471 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - African American families
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Intergenerational relations
KW  - History
KW  - Middle class African Americans
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/hayn18102
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231543415
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231543415/original
ER  -