| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. By Wendell Pritchett. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii, 333 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-68446-6.)4-00332-2.)

In this community study, Wendell Pritchett engages many of the major themes of twentieth-century U.S. urban history: race and ethnicity, real estate development, changing neighborhoods, urban political infighting, community activism, public housing and urban renewal, and other important subjects. The main thrust of Pritchett's analysis can be found in the interplay over time between human agency and public policy, as Brownsville's changing citizenry sought to build or sustain community in the face of governmental neglect and misguided urban policies. 1

Undeveloped in the 1880s, Brownsville grew quickly in the 1890s as manufacturers, especially in the garment trades, moved in and built factories and worker housing. Thousands of working-class Jews from the Lower East Side migrated to Brownsville, attracted by slightly better housing and open spaces. Pritchett details the diversity and dynamism of Jewish Brownsville, focusing on its organizational structure and its traditions of political activism, dominated by local liberals, socialists, and Communists. Women activists predominated; their causes ranged from supporting public housing and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) unions to curbing unscrupulous landlords, promoting rent strikes, pushing civil rights issues, and developing recreational programs. . . .

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