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Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn

DOC Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader in History

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From 1940 to 1970; nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas.Traditionally; the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view; arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously; more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers; limiting black–white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore; many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities.Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods; Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.


#617714 in Books Princeton University Press 2009-08-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.21 x .64 x 6.14l; .88 #File Name: 0691139172280 pages


Review
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Mitzvah girlsBy rccfirstladynot a great book; couldn't finish it - vendor provided it quickly - quess I didn't enjoy the author story.22 of 22 people found the following review helpful. intriguing but oddly miscellaneous studyBy hmf22Mitzvah Girls is an anthropological study of Hasidic girls; somewhat in the spirit of Liz Harris's Holy Days and Stephanie Levine's Mystics; Mavericks; and Merrymakers. It offers an intimate peek into several of Brooklyn's Hasidic communities; especially into girls' elementary schools and the home lives of mothers and children. Ayala Fader has a strong background in linguistics; and much of the study focuses on the roles of Hasidic English and Hasidic Yiddish in the community. Another intriguing thread of the study examines Hasidic women's striving to be "with it; not modern." I was fascinated to read about the manner in which Hasidic mothers and teachers blend mainstream child psychology with traditional approaches and prescriptions. Overall; Mitzvah Girls provides a rich portrait of the values that inform Hasidic child-rearing.Though I learned a lot from the book; I was frustrated by some of Fader's omissions. She mentions Hasidic children's literature; games; and summer camps only to brush them off; I would have loved to learn more. In writing about the school curriculum; she focuses overwhelmingly on grades K-2 and gives little sense of what the curriculum is like in later years. And while Fader writes at length about modesty and courtship; she never addresses the topic of menstruation. Fader indicates that some Hasidic girls are more or less unaware of the facts of life until they become engaged; but that simply begs the question of what mothers; teachers; and other adult women tell them about their changing bodies in the years between puberty and marriage. Though there is plenty of human interest in the book; the anthropological framework is sometimes heavy-handed. While I enjoyed Mitzvah Girls; I found that it did not provide quite as well-rounded or as approachable a survey of Hasidic girls and Hasidic home life as Harris's and Levine's works do. Its greatest strength lies in Fader's compelling analysis of Hasidic English; Hasidic Yiddish; and gendered speech patterns.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Had high hopesBy MikiSubject matter was very interesting but writing was much too dry and academic. I found the bits where the author discussed her personal feelings and conflict about her subjects to be fascinating. I wish that she could have included more along this vein.

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