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A 4 page book review that argues that Wendell Pritchett's goal in his text Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto-- a community study of a section of Brooklyn, New York known as Brownsville --is to provide a complete sociological profile of this neighborhood. Pritchett begins in the late nineteenth century and carries the history of the neighborhood forward to the present, addressing significant events. The principal point of Pritchett's analysis is found in the relationship, over time, between the faculties of human agency and bureaucratic public policymaking, as the residents of Brownsville's ever-changing populace endeavored to construct a sustainable community in the face of governmental ineptitude and misconceived urban policies. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Brownsville --is to provide a complete sociological profile of this neighborhood. Pritchett begins in the late nineteenth century and carries the history of the neighborhood forward to the present, addressing
significant events. The principal point of Pritchetts analysis is found in the relationship, over time, between the faculties of human agency and bureaucratic public policymaking, as the residents of Brownsvilles
ever-changing populace endeavored to construct a sustainable community in the face of governmental ineptitude and misconceived urban policies (Book Review). Pritchett begins by demonstrating that what Brownsville was like for
individuals could vary considerably from person to person. For example, Samuel Tenenbaum and William Poster both grew up in Brownsville; Tenenbaum in the 1910s and Poster in the 1920s (Pritchett
9). For Tenenbaum, Brownsville was a "cauldron of intellectual ferment" where education offered a chance to escape into a better world (Pritchett 9). Poster, on the other hand, saw the
neighborhood purely in terms of "deprivation and ugliness," as a "cesspool of illiteracy and hoodlumism" (Pritchett 9). Both observations, according to Pritchett, are perfectly true and serve to highlight the
contradictions that abounded within this working-class community. How one experienced Brownsville could depend entirely on perspective and circumstance, with each perception being equally true. Pritchett goes on to describe more
contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "shtetl-like" feeling (9). On the other hand, it was also a dangerous slum,
which was look down on by the rest of Brooklyn, as well as the rest of New York City. Brownsville arose in the 1880s and grew quickly in the
1890s, as manufacturers, particularly those in the garment industry, moved in and constructed factories and worker housing (Book Review). At this time, thousands of working-class Jewish families moved New York
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