{"product_id":"down-the-up-staircase-bruce-haynes-9780231181020","title":"Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDown the Up Staircase\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century--the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements--as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protege of eminent black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois; his grandmother, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family's rise and demise. \u003cem\u003eDown the Up Staircase\u003c\/em\u003e is a stirring portrait of this family, each generation walking a tightrope, one misstep from free fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Haynes, Syma Solovitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231181027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231181020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2017 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2017","brand":"Bruce Haynes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994077593855,"sku":"9780231181020","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2eab315-8219-40a6-adcd-269002cf763f.jpg?v=1683328000","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/down-the-up-staircase-bruce-haynes-9780231181020","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}