The newcomers : Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a changing metropolis / by Oscar Handlin.

Main entry:

Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011.

Title & Author:

The newcomers : Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a changing metropolis / by Oscar Handlin.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1959.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1959]
©1959

Description:

xiii, 171 pages : color maps ; 22 cm

Series:

New York metropolitan region study

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, 1620-1928 -- 3. THE NEWEST IMMIGRANTS -- 4. PATTERNS OF ADJUSTMENT -- 5. FORMS OF SOCIAL ACTION -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX: Motives for Negro Migration to the Suburbs -- TABLES -- NOTES -- INDEX.
In English.

Biographical note:

HandlinOscar: Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, was Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was the editor of This Was America.

ISBN:

9780674866027
0674866029

Subject:

African Americans New York (State) New York.
Puerto Ricans New York (N.Y.)
Puerto Ricans New York (State) New York.
African Americans.
Negros (Em Geral)
Puerto Ricans.
Puertorriqueños en Nueva York (Ciudad)
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
National characteristics, Puerto Rican.
Noirs américains New York (État) New York.
Portoricains New York (État) New York.
Noirs américains.
Portoricains.
African American.
New York (State) New York

Added entries:

New York metropolitan region study.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 23758
Call No.: PO14220; ID:88-B10188
Status: Available

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