Comparison of Two Middle-Income Black Communities in A Multi-Ethnic Urban Setting

这个奖项授予纽约城市大学皇后学院 将允许PI，少数民族研究人员，进行一次 对两个中等收入黑人的民族志和民族史研究 纽约市皇后区的社区。 一个社区（东 埃尔姆赫斯特）已经稳定了好几年，另一个（勒弗拉克 城市）最近发展得更快。两者都在经历戏剧性的 随着新移民人口的迁入，社会发生了变化。 这项研究很重要，因为它将增加我们的知识 黑人中产阶级社区如何发展， 他们与之打交道的市政府以及其他种族 他们现在必须与之共存的人群。

This award to the Queens College of City University of New York will allow the PI, a minority researcher, to conduct an ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of two middle-income Black communities in Queens, New York City. One community (East Elmhurst) has been stable for several years and the other (Lefrak City) has developed more recently. Both are undergoing dramatic social change as new immigrant populations move into the area. This research is important because it will add to our knowledge of how Black middle-class communities develop and relate to the city governments they deal with as well as the other ethnic populations that they must now coexist with.