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A transplanted Chicago : race, place and the press in Iowa City / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutsche, Robert E., Jr., 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Iowa--Iowa City--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History.
- Migration, Internal.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book looks at the movement of urban blacks into small-city America through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself. As Chicago's urban poor have moved deeper into the Midwest, pressing questions have plagued smaller communities for decades: Why are people from Chicago coming here? By answering this question, the book examines how the region and its ever-diversifying small cities continue to struggle with deciding who gets to define community identity and who makes decisions on housing, employment and education. This volume is well-suited for scholars and
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Welcome to the Rural Ghetto: "Southeast Side" as "Little Chicago"; One. How News Explains Everyday Life; Two. Place and Its Purpose; Three. Building the Ghetto: Reading News as Cultural Mortar; Four. News of "The Inner City": Racializing the Southeast Side; Five. What's the Southeast Side? Using Mental Mapping to Construct Place; Six. Whose Southeast Side? Mapping Place; Seven. The Subtle Power of the Press: Place and Its Ideological Function; Eight. School News: Press Constructions of Schools-as-Place
- Conclusion: On the Role of News, Place and Being HumanEpilogue: Beyond the Southeast Side: News Place-Making Elsewhere; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-1628-0
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