Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (Columbia University Press, 2017), by Bruce D. Haynes, professor of sociology, with Syma Solovitch. This memoir tells Haynes’ family story—beginning with his grandparents, National Urban League co-founder George Edmund Haynes and children’s book author Elizabeth Ross Haynes.

I was born in Harlem, New York. After receiving my B.A. in Sociology from Manhattanville College,I conducted applied research, under sociologist and jury expert Jay Schulman, selecting juries for trials throughout New York State. From there I went on to earn my doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York (1995) and was appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Yale University in 1995. In 2001, I joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where I now serve as Professor of Sociology. In addition, I am a Senior Fellow in the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale University.

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