Albany's People and Neighborhoods: From 1880 to the Present

Albany has evolved from its Dutch and English roots, to an immigrant
destination for Germans, Italians, and Jews in the late 19th Century, to the racially and ethnically diverse city that we see today. This lecture will
use newly analyzed census data from 1880, 1920, 1970, and 2000 to describe these population shifts.

A special focus will be on mapping out the neighborhoods of each of the major groups, showing how some groups eventually dispersed from their ethnic enclaves while others have remained quite separate.

This Albany Heritage lecture is part of the Neighbor Stories series.

 

John Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at
Albany, and also Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for comparative Urban and Regional Research. He specializes in studies of urban change, and his most recent work focuses on the history of immigrant and minority neighborhoods in major U.S. cities.