Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York

by Roger Waldinger

Book Overview

Still the Promised City? addresses the question of why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Does the increase in immigration bear some responsibility for the failure of more blacks to rise, for their disappearance from many occupations, and for their failure to establish a presence in business?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674000722
• ISBN13: 9780674000728
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Example of Competition Model

This is a good example of the competition model for race relations. But, it could go further into the analysis of broader patterns of discrimination in the marketplace.