Chicago on the make : power and inequality in a modern city / Andrew J. Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Andrew J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar narrative that Chicago's autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created the stark inequalities that ravage the city today. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling Chicago's deeply entrenched social and urban problems as the city ascended to the national stage during the Obama years"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Capital order

Black metropolis

White and black

The machine

Civil rights in the multiracial city

Violence in the global city

A city of two tales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520286481

0520286480

OCLC:

981118028