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Gemeinschaft Into Ghetto: Black Communities and White Urban America

A review essay*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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Footnotes

*

Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community 1720–1840. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. 354pp. £22.95.

Edward D. Smith, Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities, 1740–1877. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. $15.95.

John C. Walter. The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970 (SUNY Series in Afro-American Studies ). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988. $44.50, cloth, $14.50, paperback.

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Notes

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