Jerome Krase: 3 books
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
A View from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline...
The World in Brooklyn
Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...
Seeing Cities Change
Local Culture and Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic...