The Collaborative City
Subtitle: Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780815335603
Subjects: American studies; Black studies; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Urban communities; Business & Economics; Social conditions; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sociology - Urban; Economic Policy; Ethnic Sociology; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - General; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; Architecture / Planning; Development - Economic Development; 1975-; African Americans; Economic conditions; Hispanic Americans
First sentence: In 1982, African American and Latinos in Chicago organized as part of an unprecedented grassroots movement and coalition that led to the election of Harold Washington as the first nonWhite mayor of that city.