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Block by block : neighborhoods and public policy on Chicago's West Side / Amanda I. Seligman.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library F548.9.A1 S45 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seligman, Amanda I.
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban policy--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Urban policy.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- White people--Illinois--Chicago--Migrations--20th century.
- White people.
- White people--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans--Housing--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- White people--Housing--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- City and town life--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- City and town life.
- Suburban life--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Suburban life.
- History.
- African Americans--Housing.
- Social conditions.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman examines the responses of whites in the West Side communities of Chicago to the racial transformation occurring in their neighborhoods in the decades following World War II. Seligman's account illuminates that deterioration in these areas in fact began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. This book is essential to understanding how the "flight" of whites to the suburbs and even the 1960s riots were responses to developments in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.
- Contents:
- Introduction : block by block
- Chicago's West Side
- Housing codes
- Conservation and urban renewal
- A Chicago campus for the University of Illinois
- Public schools
- Blockbusting
- Keeping African Americans out
- Keeping whites in
- Epilogue : reconsidering white flight.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226746631
- 0226746658
- OCLC:
- 56086688
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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