Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 9780226728650, 9780226728513, 022672865X

The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago 9780226661612

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and

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Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing 9780226360874

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents

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Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago [1 ed.] 0816637024, 9780816637027

“The African American community.” “The black position.” In accounts of black politics after the Second World War, these

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Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront 9780812294583

In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the shore of Lake Michigan into an intensel

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The making of a Jewish ghetto 9780415929691, 0415929695

This study reconstructs the formation of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing primarily on the ghetto in Bud

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The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900–1967 9780472029983, 2013040288

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Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 9780804783361

The first comprehensive, comparative and interpretive history of a highly important historical settlement of Chinese / C

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This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South 1469614235, 9781469614236

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version o

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Manifest destinies: the making of the Mexican American race [Second edition] 9781479882618, 1479882615, 9781479894284, 1479894281

"Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico in 1846

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Manifest Destinies, Second Edition: The Making of the Mexican American Race 9781479835393

An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United

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