Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia - Immigrants in A Divided City

by Judith Goode, Jo Anne Schneider

What happens when people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds come together to live and work in the same neighborhood? This book looks at the interaction of immigrant populations in three Philadelphia neighborhoods. It considers five primary groups - whites, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, and Eastern Europeans.

296 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

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[Laurasmoot]

ethnographic study covers five ethnic groups in Olney, Kensington and Port Richmond, focusing on interaction between communities and patterns of local, city, national gov’t and economy