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Loading... Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Citiesby Jack Cashill
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not so much an academic or an analytical book, but a very personal account by a native of Newark, New Jersey as to the decline of the city, and what he believes were the crucial factors in that decline, culminating in the fierce 1967 riots that wracked the city. It should be noted that Cashill has a definite point of view, and his barbed comments about anti-racists are not soft. As I say, more anecdotal than anything else, but quite interesting to read, especially in light of the fate of Cashill's father and some of his relatives. ( ) no reviews | add a review
I asked one lifelong friend, a rare Democrat among the displaced, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African-American families moved in. He searched a minute for the right set of words, and then simply said, "It became untenable." When I asked what he meant by "untenable," he answered, "When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that's untenable. When your home gets broken into for the second time, that's untenable." In researching this project, I found myself repeatedly stunned by the failure of self-described experts on white flight to ask those accused of fleeing why it was they fled. The reason the experts didn't ask, I discovered, is that they were afraid of what they might learn. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)307.3362Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Communities Structure Patterns of use Residential use; housing patterns; sociology of housing NeighbourhoodsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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