Chicago on the Make (eBook)

Power and Inequality in a Modern City

Andrew J. Diamond (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
380 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96171-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one of Americas most segregated cities. . . . A wealth of material.New York TimesWinner 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 Maketraces 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'sautocratic 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.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

Introduction
1 • Capital Order
2 • Black Metropolis
3 • White and Black
4 • Th e 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American racism • Anthropologists • chicago historian • Chicago Illinois • city planning • class warfare • famous city • Grassroots politics • illinois historians • Journalism • national stage • Obama administration • ohare • Publishing • race equality • segregation in america • urban planning • Urban Problems • Windy City
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96171-4 / 0520961714
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96171-5 / 9780520961715