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Harlem Supers

The Social Life of a Community in Transition

By: Terry Williams

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Hardcover | 5 November 2015

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256 Pages

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14.7 x 22.2 x 2.2

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Harlem Supers is a micro ethnography and in-depth analysis examining the superintendent occupation within the broader context of the city and a primary focus on various Harlem communities. Williams aims to provide an understanding of the life of superintendents and the role they play in the city, the building, the block, and the neighborhood as contributors to the analysis of migration patterns, community-building, and displacement in specific American urban areas. Examining the life of the community facing a rapid process of gentrification, displacement, desertification and renewal, Williams explores superintendents as an essential component in the life of most New Yorkers, and the role they play in the formation of relationships and networks within the neighborhood.

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"Terry Williams's book is much more than a great ethnography of supers. It presents a long duree participant-observation theoretical critique of the tragedy of the neoliberal gentrification of Harlem and between the lines delivers a very personal coming of age autobiography; from working as a super's apprentice, a bonafide super and eventually as an insider landlord/speculator without ever abandoning his roots or his solidarity with his everyday neighbors. He offers a unique voice as an inner-city survivor."- Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack and El Barrio and Righteous Dopefiend "I enjoyed Harlem Supers and the depth you have gone to show that supers are not just the guy in the basement doing the garbage and the cleaning the building, but in fact the super is responsible for the residents health, safety, security and comfort and their overall quality of life in the building. We all very much appreciate [Williams] for writing this book."- Peter Grech, Director of Education of the Superintendents Technical Association

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