Preface: Harlem on my mind -- part 1. 1910-1944 : a White man's city -- 1910 -- Good government -- Race science -- Segregation by collusion -- Mapping bigotry -- The good war -- part 2. 1944-1968 : Blacks next door -- Crossing Fulton Avenue -- Covenants crumble -- Fighting anti-Semitism -- A brotherhood of profit -- Ordinary lives -- Uneasy allies -- From dream to nightmare -- part 3. 1968-2000 : the noose -- Exiting the city -- Metropolis -- Persistent patterns -- Epilogue: An American dilemma.