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Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Maps, Illustrations, and Figures
Chapters
1. Symbolism, Self and Urban Environment
Residential Succession: How "Losers" Win
Negro Pioneers and White Flight
Relative Selectability among Minority Invaders
Symbolic History and Self
Symbolic History: Modern and Ancient Foundations
2. Self Selection and Urban Decay
The Social Character of the Manor
3. Woodland to City Neighborhood: 300 Years of Change
Indians, Geology and Transportation
Protecting the Community: Covenant and Zoning
Increasing Community Parameters
4. Invasion and Succession
Attractions
Invaders
Irish and Italian Catholics
Jews
Veterans: Undesirable Heroes
Blacks and the Special Problems of Nonwhite Invaders
Back to City Brownstones: A Confused Invasion
The Invasion Mentality
5. Micrological Aspects of Urban Problems
Involuntary Change: Aging and Death
Attidues of Heirs
Apartment Houses: The Big Change
The Life of a Tenant and a Building
Understanding Intricate Urban Problems
6. Stigma and Self-Image in the Inner City
Achievement and Residentia Movement
The Moral Careers of Inner-City Residents
The Community Paradigm
Implications and Applications
Bibliography
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The following pages sketch the different waves of people who came into the Lefferts Manor and Prospect-Lefferts-Gardens area after the Manor was established as a first-class urban neighborhood. All of these people have contributed to the physical and symbolic content of the present community. Included in this section are groups and individuals who, are best described as "co-presents" to Manorites; residents of the area who Manorites would not be willing to include as part of the community's social inventory. Co-presents, and residents of other neighborhoods close to the Manor have also had significant impact on the value of the Lefferts manor community, both negatively and positively. In the pages that follow the relationship between self and group identities, and the community in which one lives, is emphasized.
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