Towering Above Harlem by Steven Gregory, Arlene Dvila, Eliza... - 9781479831388

New York University Press

Towering Above HarlemGeographies of Race and the Power of Elite Institutions\nAuthor(s): Steven Gregory, Arlene Dvila, Elizabeth Chin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479831388, 978-1479831388\nSynopsis\nCharts racialized and class-based exclusion in Morningside Heights and its surrounding area by elite institutions\n New York City's storied diversity has also been a story of racialized class discrimination. Towering Above Harlem focuses on understudied players in this process: the elite institutions of Morningside HeightsColumbia University, Teachers College and the Riverside Churchto reveal the troubling ways in which they exploited existing geographic features to build a racially and economically exclusive \""city on a hill.\""\n In his final book-length work, Steven Gregory explores the long history of economic and racial discrimination in Morningside Heights, beginning in the late 19th century.