Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
ISBN-13:
9780231181020
ISBN-10:
0231181027
Author:
Bruce Haynes, Syma Solovitch
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Format:
Hardcover
240 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780231181020
ISBN-10:
0231181027
Author:
Bruce Haynes, Syma Solovitch
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Format:
Hardcover
240 pages
Summary
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (ISBN-13: 9780231181020 and ISBN-10: 0231181027), written by authors
Bruce Haynes, Syma Solovitch, was published by Columbia University Press in 2017.
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Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century―the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements―as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class.
In many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protégé of eminent black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois; his grandmother, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family's rise and demise. Down the Up Staircase is a stirring portrait of this family, each generation walking a tightrope, one misstep from free fall.
In many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protégé of eminent black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois; his grandmother, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family's rise and demise. Down the Up Staircase is a stirring portrait of this family, each generation walking a tightrope, one misstep from free fall.
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