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by Bruce Haynes; Syma Solovitch

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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 protege 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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  • Title Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
  • Author Bruce Haynes; Syma Solovitch
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date 2017-04-11
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780231181020 / 0231181027
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016046838
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2017, Page 89
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/20/2017, Page 0

About the author

Bruce D. Haynes is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (2001) and the coeditor of The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies (2011).

Syma Solovitch is a freelance writer, developmental editor, and educator. This is her first book.

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