Down the Up Staircase - Three Generations of a Harlem Family

In Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill.

Summary

In Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Haynes, Bruce D. Haynes, Bruce D. Solovitch Haynes, Bruce Solovitch Haynes, Haynes Bruce, Syma Solovitch
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2017
• EAN: 9780231181020
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18102-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, Memoirs, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Black & Asian Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General