Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018)

Auteur de Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960

3 oeuvres 217 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Arnold Richard Hirsch was born on March 9, 1949. He received a bachelor's degree in 1970 and a Ph.D. in history in 1978 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His best-known book, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, was published in 1983. He also edited two afficher plus collections, one on creole New Orleans and the other on urban policy in 20th-century America. He began teaching history at the University of New Orleans in 1970 and was an emeritus professor there at the time of his death. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body disease on March 19, 2018 at the age of 69. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (1998) 156 exemplaires

Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization (1992) 58 exemplaires

Urban Policy in Twentieth-Century America (1992) 3 exemplaires

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A lire (23) Afro-Américains (8) Afro-Américains (4) Américain (2) Années 1940 (3) Années 1950 (3) anthroapologies (2) Assimilation culturelle (2) Bien immobilier (3) Cha (2) Chicago (19) Creoles (3) ethnocultural relations (2) Gouvernement (2) Histoire (25) histoire américaine (8) Histoire urbaine (5) housing (5) La Nouvelle-Orléans (8) melting-pot-liquor (2) MIT OCW (2) non-fiction (10) Pauvreté (2) Planification urbaine (5) Politique sociale (2) race (11) race and racism (2) race-ism-and-class-ism (2) Racisme (4) Relations interraciales (2) School of Architecture and Planning (school) (2) Ségrégation (4) urbain (4) urban-studies-and-planning (subject) (2) Urbanisme (3) Veut lire (2) Villes (3) XXe siècle (9) États-Unis (7) Études urbaines (5)

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Nom légal: Hirsch, Arnold Richard
Date de naissance: 1949-03-09
Date de décès: 2018-03-19
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lieu du décès: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Lieux de résidence: West Rogers Park, Illinois, USA
Études: University of Illinois, Chicago (BA, PhD - History)
Professions: historian
professor emeritus (History)
Organisations: University of New Orleans

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Creole New Orleans : Race and Americanization par Arnold R. Hirsch

Editors Hirsch and Logsdon have compiled a necessary read by any serious commentator on New Orleans or Louisiana. It will be considerably easier to assimilate by one who is a native student than one whose paradigm is what the authors refer to as from Anglo-American traditions.

The several contributors do a remarkable job of conveying the complexities of the social development of New Orleans, usually ignored by commentators. While the styles of the contributors varies expectedly and can be a little academic at times, only one Joseph Tregle's contribution was hard to wade through. He successfully rebuts overly simplified and never quite attributed claims with far too many words and academic sounding argument.

With that one exception the book is an excellent read and I'd recommend it to anyone seriously curious about the opportunities offered and contributions by this unique place and its people.… (plus d'informations)

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gpsman | Aug 6, 2008 |

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