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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

";Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one of America's most segregated cities. . . . A wealth of material.";-New York Times Winner of the 2017 Jon Gjerde Prize, Midwestern History AssociationWinner of the 2017 Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society Heralded as America's 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 stark inequalities. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1.Capital Order

2. Black Metropolis

3. White and Black

4. The Boss and the Black Belt

5. Civil Rights in the Multiracial City

6. Violence in the Global City

7. A City of Two Tales

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780520961715

0520961714

OCLC:

1004378140