Canarsie

Jonathan Rieder is Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University.

• Introduction Danger and Dispossession Part 1: History 1. The Fenced land 2. Ethnic Tradition Part 2: TERRITORIAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL THREATS 3. Vulnerable Places 4. The Lost People 5. The Reverence is Gone Part 3: REACTIONS TO THREAT 6. Striking Back 7. Canarsie Schools for Canarsie Children 8. The Trials of Liberalism Notes Index

Yale anthropologist Jonathan Rieder spent two years living not in New Guinea or up the Amazon but in a place that his academic colleagues probably found even more exotic: the lower-middle-class neighborhood adjacent to New York’s Kennedy Airport. There Rieder witnessed close-up the destruction of Roosevelt’s coalition by voter revulsion against crime, welfare, and casual disorder.