A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky\'s account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years.
He traces Harlem\'s change to the larg.
Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky\'s account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years
