Seeing Cities Change—Local Culture and Class

In this valuable contribution to understanding urban cultural pluralism, situated between the extremes of assimilation and multiculturalism, Krase (City U. of New York) draws on many years of walking and photographing culturally-diverse city neighborhoods all over the world. For example, photographs of Brooklyn, NY, include images of its Orthodox Jewish, Russian, Muslim, and newer Asian communities. Drawing on multi- disciplinary studies, particularly visual sociology, he visualizes the evolving demographic facts of American and other cities; sites of migration by newcomers and gentrification are viewed as dynamic mosaics rather than fitting stereotypical patterns. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jerome Krase is Murray Koppelman Professor and Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, and author of Self and Community in the City, co-author of Ethnicity and Machine Politics, and co-editor of Race and Ethnicity in New York City, The Melting Pot and Beyond, and Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World.