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

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

Arnold R. Hirsch

(Historical studies of urban America)

University of Chicago Press, 1998

  • pbk.

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"with new foreword"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Originally published 1983 in the series "Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history", edited by Robert Fogel and Stephan Thernstorom, Cambridge University Press

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Description

This text argues that in the post-depression years, Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. The book shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal efforts was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles waged on Chicago's South Side. Its chronicle of the strategies used by ethnic, political and business interests in reaction to the great migration of southern blacks in the 1940s describes how the violent reaction of an emergent "white" population combined with public policy to segregate the city.

Table of Contents

List of tables and maps Foreword to the 1998 Edition Preface 1 The second ghetto and the dynamics of neighborhood 2 An era of hidden violence 3 Friends, neighbors, and rioters 4 The Loop versus the slums: downtown strikes back 5 A neighborhood on a hill: Hyde Park and the University of Chicago 6 Divided we stand: white unity and the color line at midcentury 7 Making the second ghetto Epilogue: Chicago and the nation Notes Index

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