Selling the Lower East Side

Chapter 4
Reengineering the Ghetto:
Ethnicity, Race, and Cultural
Divisions in the 1950s

4.1 New York City, 1950s
4.2 Post-World War II Migration
from Puerto Rico to the US
4.3 Urban Renewal and Low-Income
Neighborhoods
4.4 Race and Ethnicity on the
Lower East Side in the 1950s
4.5 Beatniks of the 1950s
4.6 Drugs, Crime and the Reputation
of the 1950s Lower East Side
4.7 Community Resistance to
Neighborhood Decline
4.Bib Additional Readings


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