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- catalog abstract ""On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly African-American. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially divisive moment in the city in more than a century, sparking three teachers' strikes and increasingly angry confrontations between black and white New Yorkers at bargaining tables, on picket lines, and in the streets." "This book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis - a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its influence on city politics, economics, and culture. Podair shows how the crisis became a symbol of the vast perceptual chasm separating black and white New Yorkers. And the legacy of this critical moment, when blacks and whites spoke past each other like strangers, has ever since played a role in city issues ranging from mayoral elections to budget negotiations, disputes over police violence, and debates on welfare policy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12627139.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly African-American. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially divisive moment in the city in more than a century, sparking three teachers' strikes and increasingly angry confrontations between black and white New Yorkers at bargaining tables, on picket lines, and in the streets."".
- catalog description ""This book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis - a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its influence on city politics, economics, and culture. Podair shows how the crisis became a symbol of the vast perceptual chasm separating black and white New Yorkers. And the legacy of this critical moment, when blacks and whites spoke past each other like strangers, has ever since played a role in city issues ranging from mayoral elections to budget negotiations, disputes over police violence, and debates on welfare policy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.".
- catalog description "Two New Yorks : New York City, 1945-1965 -- The rise of community -- "Black" values, "white" values : race and culture in New York City during the 1960s -- The Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control experiment -- The strikes -- Like strangers : the third strike and beyond -- Culture war -- After the crisis : race and memory -- Ocean Hill-Brownsville, New York, America.".
- catalog extent "xi, 273 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300081227 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "331.892/813711/0097471 21".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in education New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "LB2844.47.U62 N4867 2002".
- catalog subject "Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)".
- catalog subject "Strikes and lockouts Teachers New York (State) New York.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Two New Yorks : New York City, 1945-1965 -- The rise of community -- "Black" values, "white" values : race and culture in New York City during the 1960s -- The Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control experiment -- The strikes -- Like strangers : the third strike and beyond -- Culture war -- After the crisis : race and memory -- Ocean Hill-Brownsville, New York, America.".
- catalog title "The strike that changed New York : blacks, whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis / Jerald E. Podair.".
- catalog type "text".