Canarsie: The Jews And Italians Of Brooklyn Against Liberalism By Johnathan Rieder

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Equivocally, pride is neither a “good” nor a “bad” feeling; it is simply neutral and it definitely depends on how one expresses one’s pride and the outcomes of the expression. Pride definitely makes up to how people perceive their own self-worth and build up their self-right of what should be theirs based on their accomplishments and similar customs and beliefs. Unification of the Italian and Jewish residents only made their pride to be immense. The Jewish and the Italian residents represent Canarsie to their fullest extent in the 1920s-1960s. According to the book, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism by Johnathan Rieder, it details that “Canarsie is a house proud neighborhood of about 70,000 people, mainly middle-income Jews and Italians” (Rieder 1). Rieder …show more content…

One reason is that there was an increase population of the newcomers was simply because of their sturdiness and pride. People, not matter what religion, gender, age, or cultural and ethnical backgrounds, have a piece of themselves with others. In other words, the newcomers had hubris just like old Canarsie residents. Continuing on DeSena and Shortwell book, the book depicts that “how West Indian and their children frame race can shift as the time they spend in the [Canarsie] grows…the more their understanding of racism comports with that of other African Americans” (DeSena and Shortwell 384). To take account of the time period, racial superiority oppressed the inferior race of pain and suffering. The more one takes in pain and suffering, the less extreme of the numbness that one would feel and one would take precautions to stand. With the threats and violent outbursts, the population of the newcomers increased because they understood that they needed to remain strong as a whole. Having pride and representing cultures kept pilling these newcomers in the land of

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