Housing Divide How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market
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Biographical note
Emily Rosenbaum is professor of sociology at Fordham University. Samantha Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University.[W]ill be fascinating for policy makers and scholars concerned with housing patterns and racial discrimination.
Jewish Book World
The Housing Divide is a very good book. It accomplishes the admirable feat of evaluating assimilation theory, using a combination of archival and quantitative data, within the intrinsically important New York city context.
- Milton Vickerman, Urban Studies Journal
The Housing Divide brilliantly transforms the Big Apple into a crystal ball for glimpsing the racial and ethnic future of 21st century America. The core findingthat, just as in the past, racial discrimination keeps Americans with African ancestry from taking advantage of opportunities used by the newest immigrants and their children to get aheadportends a troubling future in which American society may cleave between blacks and non-blacks. This book is a wake-up call to America to finally address racial discrimination in housing.
- Richard Alba,co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration,
The Housing Divide takes a hard look at housing and neighborhood quality in the nation's largest and most diverse city. It exposes long-standing features that are found in most American cities, including the potential for upward mobility by some immigrant newcomers, the traps that others fall into, and the continuing reality of racial discrimination that limits progress for too many New Yorkers.
- John R. Logan,editor of The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform,
An excellent and timely volume, very well written, clearly organized, and cogently argued.
- Douglas S. Massey,author of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration,
Well organized, tightly written and full of interesting and provocative information. The authors produced a very good piece of scholarship that is theoretically grounded and attentive to detail, especially concerning methodological issues including the potential limitations of their study.
- Victoria Basolo,University of California, Irvine,
The authors offer a particularly balanced, thorough discussion in chapter 1 of how residence both reflects socioeconomic status and helps to determine it
American Journal of Sociology
This well written book makes a major contribution to urban sociology and race/ethnic studies.
Choice
Casts much light on longstanding debates over the assimilation and economic advancement of foreign immigrants in the USA.
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