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    The document disputes popular legends that depict New York's Five Points neighborhood as extremely crime-ridden and depraved in the 1800s. Instead, archaeological evidence suggests immigrants who lived there faced marginalization from their government and a lack of basic infrastructure. Popular culture narratives about the area were exaggerated and used by the ruling class to portray immigrants in a negative light.

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    The document disputes popular legends that depict New York's Five Points neighborhood as extremely crime-ridden and depraved in the 1800s. Instead, archaeological evidence suggests immigrants who lived there faced marginalization from their government and a lack of basic infrastructure. Popular culture narratives about the area were exaggerated and used by the ruling class to portray immigrants in a negative light.

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    The Five Points neighborhood was not “Gangs of New York”

    Legends of depravity and crime that


    Miramax
    permeate popular culture were
    promoted by the ruling class.

    The archaeological
    record tells the story
    of immigrants who
    were marginalized
    by their government
    and infrastructure.

    http://urbanethno.scientopia.org datainnovation.o

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