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High rise stories : voices from Chicago public housing / compiled and edited by Audrey Petty ; foreword by Alex Kotlowitz ; assistant editor Crystal Thomas ; research editor Alex Carp ; advising editor Peter Orner.
Lippincott Library HD7304.C4 H54 2013
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public housing--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Public housing.
- Poor--Illinois--Chicago--Interviews.
- Poor.
- Poor--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Voice of Witness : McSweeney's, [2013]
- Summary:
- In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.
- Contents:
- Dolores Wilson 29
- Dawn Knight 45
- Donnell Furlow 59
- Yusufu Mosley 81
- Eddie Leman 97
- Sabrina Nixon 115
- Paula Hawkins 125
- Sonovia Marie Petty 141
- Ashley Cortland 155
- Chandra Bell 165
- Tiffany Tucker 175
- Lloyd "Peter" Haywood 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1938073371
- 9781938073373
- OCLC:
- 816564486
- Publisher Number:
- 99958883800
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