Sociology and Anthropology
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Protecting One’s Turf
Publisher: University Press of America
Lanham, MD
2005, 132 pages
This book is a community study of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It
focuses on how in the course of their everyday lives, residents
engage in racial exclusion and segregation. The book analyzes the
informal strategies used in the process, which include: an informal
housing network; local surveillance; and social segregation through
local institutions. This revised edition discusses gentrification
as the most recent change in Greenpoint, and how it took hold in
such a strongly defended neighborhood.