Judith N Desena
Biographic Data
| ID | 170891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith N Desena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith N |
| FAMILY NAME | Desena |
| SIGNATURE | DESENA J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Polish Community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Then and Now: A View from the Street
This article examines the changes that have occurred in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, throughout the years. Greenpoint became home to many Polish immigrants who sought economic opportunities in the U.S. and who wanted to escape from Soviet-era political unrest. Greenpoint became known as “Little Warsaw.” With economic restructuring in the U.S. and globalization, Greenpoint was affected. Factories and industrial work employing the Polish and working-class…
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies used to resist and promote neighborhood change and conclude with an …
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from different disciplines and various universities studying Br…
The Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn: New Kids on the Block
While most studies on gentrification focus almost exclusively on its causes and consequences through an examination of housing, class conflict, and the displacement of residents, this book analyzes the process of gentrification. Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn examines the ways in which the established working-class and lower-income residents of Greenpoint, Brooklyn remain socially segregated from the incoming gentrifiers, with both gro…
Gender in an Urban World
This volume, "Gender in an Urban World," brings the analysis of gender from the margin to the center of urban theory. "Gender in an Urban World" examines the influence of gender in shaping relations in urban spaces and places. It represents a "crack" in the landscape of urban sociology, and engages in the discourse of the field from a gendered perspective. This volume is global in focus and includes empirical and field studies as it relates to st…
What's a Mother To Do: Gentrification, School Selection, and the Consequences for Community Cohesion
Investigating the dynamics of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a community in New York City, this article examines the actions of gentrifiers and the ways in which the process of gentrification affects ordinary people in their everyday lives. The focus is on school selection for children, documenting the strategies used by women, on behalf of their gentry families, to gain admission of their children to public schools outside the neighborh…
People Power: Grass Roots Politics and Race Relations
Low-income women and community power
This article presents the community activism of working‐class and poor women and offers a reconceptualization of community power in general and women's empowerment in particular. This analysis is done by examining women's involvement in a community coalition in northern Brooklyn and was carried out through the use of interviews, participant observation, and content analysis. Findings indicate that women were empowered by their participation in th…
Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society: Proceedings of the Symposium of the American Italian Historical Association, 1993
Women: The Gatekeepers of Urban Neighborhoods
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of strategies of neighborhood defense in a working class ethnic community in Green point, Brooklyn. The author explores women’s efforts to resist racial change. White non-Hispanic women in Green point are the guardians of the neighborhood, acting as local observers of street life and serving as informal brokers in the local real estate market. The position of these women at the center of informational …
Local Gatekeeping Practices and Residential Segregation
This article links the statistical data on residential segregation with the informal practices of individuals. Local gatekeeping practices contribute to the perpetuation of segregation and further explain the patterns of macro-level analyses. This research focuses on the community of Greenpoint, a predominantly white, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. The study describes the strategies used by residents of Greenpoint to accomplish residenti…
Street Kids: The Tragedy of Canada's Runaways
In cities across North America, teenage runaways are struggling to stay alive. Some don't make it to adulthood. Some do, but their lives rarely rise above the despair that brought them to the streets in the first place. A few manage to beat the street, to get their lives back on track. In this disturbing account Marlene Webber draws on extensive interviews with these kids to explore the realities of street life, its attraction, and its consequenc…
Protecting One's Turf: Social Strategies for Maintaining Urban Neighborhoods
Protecting One's Turf: Social Strategies for Maintaining Urban Neighborhoods
What's a Mother To Do: Gentrification, School Selection, and the Consequences for Community Cohesion
Investigating the dynamics of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a community in New York City, this article examines the actions of gentrifiers and the ways in which the process of gentrification affects ordinary people in their everyday lives. The focus is on school selection for children, documenting the strategies used by women, on behalf of their gentry families, to gain admission of their children to public schools outside the neighborh…
Local Gatekeeping Practices and Residential Segregation
This article links the statistical data on residential segregation with the informal practices of individuals. Local gatekeeping practices contribute to the perpetuation of segregation and further explain the patterns of macro-level analyses. This research focuses on the community of Greenpoint, a predominantly white, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. The study describes the strategies used by residents of Greenpoint to accomplish residenti…
Women: The Gatekeepers of Urban Neighborhoods
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of strategies of neighborhood defense in a working class ethnic community in Green point, Brooklyn. The author explores women’s efforts to resist racial change. White non-Hispanic women in Green point are the guardians of the neighborhood, acting as local observers of street life and serving as informal brokers in the local real estate market. The position of these women at the center of informational …
Low-income women and community power
This article presents the community activism of working‐class and poor women and offers a reconceptualization of community power in general and women's empowerment in particular. This analysis is done by examining women's involvement in a community coalition in northern Brooklyn and was carried out through the use of interviews, participant observation, and content analysis. Findings indicate that women were empowered by their participation in th…
The Polish Community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Then and Now: A View from the Street
This article examines the changes that have occurred in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, throughout the years. Greenpoint became home to many Polish immigrants who sought economic opportunities in the U.S. and who wanted to escape from Soviet-era political unrest. Greenpoint became known as “Little Warsaw.” With economic restructuring in the U.S. and globalization, Greenpoint was affected. Factories and industrial work employing the Polish and working-class…
Protecting One's Turf: Social Strategies for Maintaining Urban Neighborhoods
Protecting One's Turf: Social Strategies for Maintaining Urban Neighborhoods
Street Kids: The Tragedy of Canada's Runaways
In cities across North America, teenage runaways are struggling to stay alive. Some don't make it to adulthood. Some do, but their lives rarely rise above the despair that brought them to the streets in the first place. A few manage to beat the street, to get their lives back on track. In this disturbing account Marlene Webber draws on extensive interviews with these kids to explore the realities of street life, its attraction, and its consequenc…
Women: The Gatekeepers of Urban Neighborhoods
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of strategies of neighborhood defense in a working class ethnic community in Green point, Brooklyn. The author explores women’s efforts to resist racial change. White non-Hispanic women in Green point are the guardians of the neighborhood, acting as local observers of street life and serving as informal brokers in the local real estate market. The position of these women at the center of informational …
Local Gatekeeping Practices and Residential Segregation
This article links the statistical data on residential segregation with the informal practices of individuals. Local gatekeeping practices contribute to the perpetuation of segregation and further explain the patterns of macro-level analyses. This research focuses on the community of Greenpoint, a predominantly white, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. The study describes the strategies used by residents of Greenpoint to accomplish residenti…
Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society: Proceedings of the Symposium of the American Italian Historical Association, 1993
Low-income women and community power
This article presents the community activism of working‐class and poor women and offers a reconceptualization of community power in general and women's empowerment in particular. This analysis is done by examining women's involvement in a community coalition in northern Brooklyn and was carried out through the use of interviews, participant observation, and content analysis. Findings indicate that women were empowered by their participation in th…
People Power: Grass Roots Politics and Race Relations
What's a Mother To Do: Gentrification, School Selection, and the Consequences for Community Cohesion
Investigating the dynamics of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a community in New York City, this article examines the actions of gentrifiers and the ways in which the process of gentrification affects ordinary people in their everyday lives. The focus is on school selection for children, documenting the strategies used by women, on behalf of their gentry families, to gain admission of their children to public schools outside the neighborh…
Gender in an Urban World
This volume, "Gender in an Urban World," brings the analysis of gender from the margin to the center of urban theory. "Gender in an Urban World" examines the influence of gender in shaping relations in urban spaces and places. It represents a "crack" in the landscape of urban sociology, and engages in the discourse of the field from a gendered perspective. This volume is global in focus and includes empirical and field studies as it relates to st…
The Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn: New Kids on the Block
While most studies on gentrification focus almost exclusively on its causes and consequences through an examination of housing, class conflict, and the displacement of residents, this book analyzes the process of gentrification. Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn examines the ways in which the established working-class and lower-income residents of Greenpoint, Brooklyn remain socially segregated from the incoming gentrifiers, with both gro…
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from different disciplines and various universities studying Br…
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies used to resist and promote neighborhood change and conclude with an …
The Polish Community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Then and Now: A View from the Street
This article examines the changes that have occurred in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, throughout the years. Greenpoint became home to many Polish immigrants who sought economic opportunities in the U.S. and who wanted to escape from Soviet-era political unrest. Greenpoint became known as “Little Warsaw.” With economic restructuring in the U.S. and globalization, Greenpoint was affected. Factories and industrial work employing the Polish and working-class…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (7 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gentrification (4 works)