Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnicity and Culture in New York's Lower East Side

by Maffi and Mario Maffi

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The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New York City's Lower East Side. This storied urban landscape, today a vibrant mix of avant garde artists and street culture, was home, in the 1910s, to the Wobblies and served, forty years later, as an...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0814755097

ISBN13:9780814755099

Release Date:April 1995

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.47 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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