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Making the second ghetto : race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 /

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"In this classic and groundbreaking work of urban history, Arnold Hirsch argues that after the Depression, Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Moreover, Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forg...

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Main Authors: Hirsch, Arnold R. (Arnold Richard), 1949-2018 (Author), Connolly, N. D. B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Series:Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:
African Americans > Housing > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Housing policy > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Discrimination in housing > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History.
African Americans > Housing.
Discrimination in housing.
Housing policy.
Race relations.
Illinois > Chicago.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The second ghetto and the dynamics of neighborhood change
  • An era of hidden violence
  • Friends, neighbors, and rioters
  • The Loop versus the slums: downtown strikes back
  • A neighborhood on a hill: Hyde Park and the University of Chicago
  • Divided we stand: white unity and the color line at midcentury
  • Making the second ghetto
  • Chicago and the nation
  • Afterword to the 2021 edition.