Canarsie : The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism
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Richard Reeves : The rise of Ronald Reagan and the politics of the 1980s surprised many of the country's best-known analysts…Jonathan Rieder was in the right places at the right time--the streets and kitchens of Canarsie, Brooklyn--to understand what was actually happening (and going to happen next) in American politics.
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What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in the mid 1980s? Why was the Republican Party able to steal away so many ethnic Democrats of modest means in recent presidential elections? Jonathan Rieder explores these questions in his powerful study of the Jews and Italians of Canarsie, a middle-income community that was once the scene of a wild insurgency against racial busing. Proud bootstrappers, the children of immigrants, Canarsians may speak with piquant New York accents, but their story has a more universal appeal. Canarsie is Middle America, Brooklyn-style.
Canarsie : The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism
Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism,Jonathan Rieder,Harvard University Press,0674093615,General,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Sociology,United States - State & Local - General,Ethnography,Political Science / General
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